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Definition of Embryonal carcinoma

1. Noun. Malignant neoplasm of the testis.

Medical Definition of Embryonal carcinoma

1. A malignant neoplasm of the testis, composed of large anaplastic cells with indistinct cellular borders, amphophilic cytoplasm, and ovoid, round, or bean-shaped nuclei that may have multiple large nucleoli; in some instances, the neoplastic cells may form tubular structures; embryonal carcinoma's may be malignant teratomas without differentiated elements. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embryonal Carcinoma

Literary usage of Embryonal carcinoma

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

1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"(2) In a very early embryonal carcinoma I found minute traces of cartilage, ... It remains possible that the embryonal carcinoma may arise from ..."

2. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"Excitotoxic Damage to Cells Derived From an embryonal carcinoma Cell Line Most in vitro studies of excitotoxicity to date have been performed in primary ..."

3. Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (1913)
"The commonest tumor of the testis is an embryonal carcinoma, alveolar or diffuse, with polyhedral or rounded cells and often with lymphoid stroma. ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
""The commonest tumor of the testis is an embryonal .carcinoma, alveolar or diffuse, with polyhedral or rounded cells and often with lymphoid stroma. ..."

5. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"The commonest tumor of the testis is an embryonal carcinoma alveolar or diffuse with polyhedral or rounded cells and often with lymphoid stronia. ..."

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