English Explanatory Dictionary

indolent lesion of epithelial origin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

indolent lesion of epithelial origin indolent lesions of epithelial origin

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.

Synonyms

IDLE
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