a small serotonin-secreting tumour, usually slow-growing and occurring in the gastrointestinal tract, although it may spread to the liver
carcinoid in American English
(ˈkɑːrsəˌnɔid)
noun
Pathology
a small, yellowish amino-acid and peptide-secreting tumor usually found in the gastrointestinaltract and lung
Word origin
[1925–30; carcin(o)- + -oid]This word is first recorded in the period 1925–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dropout, gimmick, payload, recycle, turnaround-oid is a suffix meaning “resembling,” “like,” used in the formation of adjectives andnouns (and often implying an incomplete or imperfect resemblance to what is indicatedby the preceding element). Other words that use the affix -oid include: alkaloid, cardioid, cuboid, lithoid, planetoid
Examples of 'carcinoid' in a sentence
carcinoid
Carcinoid tumours are rare and slow growing.
The Sun (2015)
The journalist, 51, needs an operation to remove a bronchial carcinoid tumour from his lung.