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Sarcoma=السرقوم
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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- sarcoma
(n.)
- 1650s, "fleshy excrescence,"
Medical Latin, from Gk. sarkoma /σάρκομα "fleshy
substance" (Galen), from sarkoun "to produce flesh, grow
fleshy," from sarx /σάρξ(gen. Sarkos/σαρκός) "flesh"
(see sarcasm)
+ -oma.
Meaning "harmful tumor of the connective tissue" first
recorded 1804.
- -oma
- word-forming element, from
Gk. -oma, with lengthened stem vowel + -ma, suffix forming neuter
nouns and nouns that indicate result of verbal action (equivalent of
L. -men); especially taken in medical use as "morbid growth,
tumor," based on sarcoma,
carcinoma.
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