Definition of Angiosarcoma

1. Noun. A rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels.


Definition of Angiosarcoma

1. Noun. (medicine) Any malignant tumour of vascular tissue ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Angiosarcoma

1. A malignant tumour originating from blood vessels. (12 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Angiosarcoma

angiopathic neurasthenia
angiopathies
angiopathy
angiophacomatosis
angioplany
angioplasties
angioplasty
angioplasty balloon
angiopoiesis
angiopoietic
angiopoietin
angiopoietins
angiopteris
angiorrhaphy
angiorrhexis
angiosarcoma (current term)
angiosarcomas
angioscope
angioscopes
angioscopy
angioscotoma
angioscotometry
angiosis
angiospasm
angiospastic

Literary usage of Angiosarcoma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"31) reports a case of angiosarcoma occurring in a girl of sixteen years. ... The microscopical examination of the tumor showed it to be an angiosarcoma. ..."

2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Yet manv types of sarcoma are derived from blood-vessels and it seems better to limit the term "angiosarcoma" to the cellular and malignant forms of angioma ..."

3. Environmental Epidemiology by National Research Council (1991)
"In the 1970s, several epidemiologie investigations indicated that occupational exposure to VC was associated with an increased risk of angiosarcoma of ..."

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