Choriocarcinoma

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.

    "When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death."

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cretinismgland

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"When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death."

Etymology

From chorio- + carcinoma.

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