comedocarcinoma


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comedocarcinoma

[¦kä·mə·dō‚kärs·ən′ō·mə]
(medicine)
A type of adenocarcinoma of the breast in which the ducts are filled with cells which, when expressed from the cut surface, resemble comedos.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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