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Definition of Carcinoid

1. Noun. A small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin.

Definition of Carcinoid

1. Noun. (medicine) A form of slow-growing tumour originating in the neuroendocrine system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carcinoid

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Medical Definition of Carcinoid

1. Intestinal tumour arising from specialised cells with paracrine functions (APUD cells). The primary tumour is commonly in the appendix, where it is clinically benign, hepatic secondaries may release large amounts of vasoactive amines such as serotonin to the systemic circulation. Synonym: argentaffinoma. (19 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Carcinoid

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

1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Pearse (1960) reviews the evidence indicating that with some carcinoid tumours, ... Tumours of smooth muscle, although commoner than carcinoid tumours, ..."

2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"(2) Multiple benign embryonal carcinoid tumors of the intestine constitute a peculiar group of tumors of the small intestine first described by ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Cancer of the Appendix Cancer and carcinoid of the appendix are more frequent than is generally supposed. Rogg reports 58 in 11000 cases of appendicitis, ..."

4. Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis by American Dermatological Association (1913)
"Further, the absence of prickle cells in this tumor would not be against a diagnosis of carcinoid, nor would the age of the patient militate against the ..."

5. A Manual of Natural History, for the Use of Travellers: Being a Description by Arthur Adams, William Balfour Baikie, Charles Barron (1854)
"The females of the carcinoid genera nearly always carry their eggs in ... but in the higher carcinoid forms rudimentary mandibles are seen, together with ..."

6. Disability Evaluation Under Social Security edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"A. Carcinoma, sarcoma, or carcinoid tumor with métastases beyond the regional lymph nodes; or B. Recurrence of carcinoma, sarcoma, or carcinoid tumor after ..."

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