sarcoma

English

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sarcoma

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Etymology

From Latin sarcoma, from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx); by surface analysis, sarc- +‎ -oma.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɑɹˈkoʊmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sarcoma (plural sarcomas or sarcomata)

1. (oncology) A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 393:

     Only about 1 per cent of cancers are found in connective tissue; these are known as sarcomas.

Derived terms

• Abernethy's sarcoma
• adenosarcoma
• angiosarcoma
• carcinosarcoma
• chondrosarcoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Ewing's sarcoma
• fibrosarcoma
• gliosarcoma
• hemangioendothelial sarcoma
• hemangiosarcoma
• histiosarcoma
• Kaposi's sarcoma
• leiomyosarcoma
• liposarcoma
• lymphosarcoma
• melanosarcoma
• myxosarcoma
• neurosarcoma
• osteosarcoma
• rhabdomyosarcoma
• Rous sarcoma virus
• sarcomatic
• sarcomatoid
• sarcomatosis
• sarcomatous

Translations

type of malignant tumor

Afrikaans: sarkoom Armenian: սարկոմա (hy) (sarkoma) Bulgarian: сарко́ма (bg) f (sarkóma) Catalan: sarcoma m Chinese: Mandarin: 肉瘤 (zh) (ròuliú) Crimean Tatar: sarkoma Czech: sarkom (cs) m Dutch: sarcoom (nl) n Esperanto: sarkomo Finnish: sarkooma (fi) French: sarcome (fr) m German: Sarkom (de) n Greek: σάρκωμα (el) n (sárkoma) Hungarian: szarkóma (hu) Indonesian: sarkoma (id) Irish: sarcóma m Italian: sarcoma (it) m Japanese: 肉腫 (ja) (にくしゅ, nikushu) Kazakh: саркома (sarkoma) Korean: 육종(肉腫) (yukjong) Latin: sarcoma n Lithuanian: sarkoma Persian: سارکوم Polish: mięsak (pl) Portuguese: sarcoma m Russian: саркома (ru) f (sarkoma) Spanish: sarcoma m Swedish: sarkom (sv) n Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sarkom (tr)

Anagrams

• Marasco, Mascaro

Interlingua

Noun

sarcoma (plural sarcomas)

1. sarcoma

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

sarcoma

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sarcoma, from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx).

Noun

sarcoma m (plural sarcomi)

1. (oncology) sarcoma

Anagrams

• Marasco, marasco

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

sarcoma

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin sarcōma, from Ancient Greek σάρκωμα (sárkōma), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ωμα (-ōma, “process”) or from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō), itself from σάρξ (sárx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈkoma/ [saɾˈko.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: sar‧co‧ma

Noun

sarcoma m (plural sarcomas)

1. (oncology) sarcoma

Usage notes

• Like other terms derived from neutral Ancient Greek third declension terms, this turns to masculine gender.

Further reading

• “sarcoma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025