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adenocarcinoma

noun/ˌædɪnəʊkɑːsɪˈnəʊmə/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A malignant tumour arising from glandular epithelium, the commonest histological type of gut cancer.

Colorectal adenocarcinoma had invaded through the muscularis propria into the serosa.

Topic: Gastroenterology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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