carcinoma vs cancer of the liver

cancer of the liver vs carcinoma

carcinoma and cancer of the liver both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carcinoma	Yes	No	No	No
cancer of the liver	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cancer of the liver is a hyponym of carcinoma; that is, cancer of the liver is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than carcinoma:

carcinoma: any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
cancer of the liver: malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort

Other hyponyms of carcinoma include liver cancer, adenocarcinoma, glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma, breast cancer, carcinoma in situ, preinvasive cancer, colon cancer, embryonal carcinoma, endometrial cancer, endometrial carcinoma, hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoma, malignant hepatoma, lung cancer, mesothelioma, oat cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, seminoma, testicular cancer, skin cancer, trophoblastic cancer.

carcinoma (noun)	cancer of the liver (noun)
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer	malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort

Difference between carcinoma and cancer of the liver

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