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indolent lesion of epithelial origin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables
in-do-len-t le-sion of ep-ithe-lial o-ri-gin
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
9
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim

Etymology

From indolent + lesion + epithelial. Coined in 2015 by the research team of Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F. Ransohoff, H. Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A. Berry, Kenneth W. Kinzler, William C. Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava.

Inflected Forms

indolent lesions of epithelial origin (plural)

Synonyms

IDLE

Questions

What does indolent lesion of epithelial origin mean?
a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim
Where does indolent lesion of epithelial origin come from?
From indolent + lesion + epithelial. Coined in 2015 by the research team of Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F. Ransohoff, H. Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A. Berry, Kenneth W. Kinzler, William C. Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava.

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