carcinomatosisn.
/ˌkɑːsᵻˌnəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/, /ˌkɑːsnˌəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˌkɑrsəˌnoʊməˈtoʊsəs/ Medicine.
Widespread dissemination of carcinoma (throughout the whole body or a region or compartment of the body); a condition characterized by this.
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1872 E. B. Baxter tr. G. E. von Rindfleisch Man. Pathol. Histol. I. 382 A true metastatic deposit in the skin, formed during the later stages of carcinomatosis [Ger. Carcinomatose].
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiii. 611 The diseases with which this particular type of blood-picture is associated are skeletal carcinomatosis, osteo-sclerosis, sometimes myelomatosis, and Cooley's leuco-erythroblastic anæmia.
1962 Lancet 26 May 1108/2 The test is..often the most convenient way of distinguishing sarcoidosis from..carcinomatosis, pneumoconiosis, or ‘farmer's lung’.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxv. 372 The patient is generally in the stage of general carcinomatosis.
1998 Daily Tel. 11 June 6/5 He certified the cause of Mr Liddell's death on July 19 last year as carcinomatosis—cancer spread throughout the body—and bowel cancer.
2007 Gut 56 107 Peritoneal carcinomatosis from pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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