sarcoma

English

Etymology

From Latin sarcoma , from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑɹˈkoʊmə/

Noun

sarcoma (plural sarcomas or sarcomata)

1. (oncology) A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 393:

     Only about 1 per cent of cancers are found in connective tissue; these are known as sarcomas.

Derived terms

• Abernethy's sarcoma
• adenosarcoma
• angiosarcoma
• carcinosarcoma
• chondrosarcoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Ewing's sarcoma
• fibrosarcoma
• gliosarcoma
• hemangiosarcoma
• histiosarcoma
• Kaposi's sarcoma
• leiomyosarcoma
• liposarcoma
• lymphosarcoma
• melanosarcoma
• myxosarcoma
• neurosarcoma
• osteosarcoma
• rhabdomyosarcoma
• Rous sarcoma virus
• sarcomatic
• sarcomatoid
• sarcomatosis
• sarcomatous

 

Translations

type of malignant tumor

• Afrikaans: sarkoom
• Armenian: սարկոմա (hy) (sarkoma)
• Bulgarian: саркома (bg) f (sarkoma)
• Catalan: sarcoma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉瘤 (zh) (ròuliú)

• Crimean Tatar: sarkoma
• Czech: sarkom (cs) m
• Dutch: sarcoom (nl) n
• Esperanto: sarkomo
• Finnish: sarkooma (fi)
• French: sarcome (fr) m
• German: Sarkom (de) n
• Greek: σάρκωμα (el) n (sárkoma)
• Hungarian: szarkóma (hu)
• Indonesian: sarkoma (id)
• Irish: sarcóma m
• Italian: sarcoma (it) m
• Japanese: 肉腫 (ja) (にくしゅ, nikushu)
• Kazakh: саркома (sarkoma)
• Korean: 육종(肉腫) (yukjong)
• Latin: sarcoma n
• Lithuanian: sarkoma
• Persian: سارکوم
• Polish: mięsak (pl)
• Portuguese: sarcoma m
• Russian: саркома (ru) f (sarkoma)
• Spanish: sarcoma m
• Swedish: sarkom (sv) n
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sarkom (tr)

Anagrams

• Marasco, Mascaro

Interlingua

Noun

sarcoma (plural sarcomas)

1. sarcoma

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sarcoma , from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx).

Noun

sarcoma m (plural sarcomi)

1. (oncology) sarcoma

Anagrams

• Marasco, marasco

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin sarcōma, from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈkoma/ [saɾˈko.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: sar‧co‧ma

Noun

sarcoma m (plural sarcomas)

1. (oncology) sarcoma

Usage notes

• Like other terms derived from neutral Ancient Greek third declension terms, this turns to masculine gender.

Further reading

• “sarcoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014