carcinoma vs oat cell carcinoma

oat cell carcinoma vs carcinoma

carcinoma and oat cell carcinoma both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
carcinoma	Yes	No	No	No
oat cell carcinoma	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oat cell carcinoma is a hyponym of carcinoma; that is, oat cell carcinoma 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
oat cell carcinoma: highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas

Other hyponyms of carcinoma include cancer of the liver, 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, small cell carcinoma, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, seminoma, testicular cancer, skin cancer, trophoblastic cancer.

carcinoma (noun)	oat cell carcinoma (noun)
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer	highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas

Difference between carcinoma and oat cell carcinoma

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