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sarcoma

sor koh mer

  • n  a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer

  • She was dying in the Massachusetts General Hospital from Ewing's sarcoma at 19, so no one was going to stop her.
  • If cancer cells of the type called Ehrlich sarcoma are ground up, made into an emulsion and injected beneath the skins of mice, the animals invariably die.
  • Dugas developed Kaposi's sarcoma, a form of skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been perceived by physicians.
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