rhabdomyosarcoma
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cancerous tumor of skeletal muscle.
Example Sentences
- "Some of these cases might be referred to the sarcomata and some to carcinomata, but that is impossible unless they could be rexëamined by a reliable pathologist, as was done by Eve, who examined a so-called medullary tumor from the kidney of an infant, which had been deposited in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in Hunter's time, and discovered that it belonged to that rare group of tumors which have been variously designated as rhabdomyosarcoma or as myosarcoma striocellulare."
- "Rhabdomyosarcoma, the most common primary malignant orbital tumor of childhood, has been classified histologically as embryonal, differentiated, or alveolar."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos)bor. English rhabdo- Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Hellenic *mū́s Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs)der. English myo- English sarcoma English rhabdomyosarcoma From rhabdo- + myo- + sarcoma.