choriocarcinoma
English
Noun
choriocarcinoma (plural choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata)
- (oncology) A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 135:
- When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 135:
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