carcinoma vs liver cancer

liver cancer vs carcinoma

carcinoma and liver cancer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, liver cancer is a hyponym of carcinoma; that is, liver cancer 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
liver 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

Other hyponyms of carcinoma include cancer of the liver, 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)	liver cancer (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 liver cancer

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