carcinoma vs preinvasive cancer

preinvasive cancer vs carcinoma

carcinoma and preinvasive cancer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, preinvasive cancer is a hyponym of carcinoma; that is, preinvasive 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
preinvasive cancer: a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body

Other hyponyms of carcinoma include cancer of the liver, liver cancer, adenocarcinoma, glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma, breast cancer, carcinoma in situ, 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)	preinvasive cancer (noun)
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer	a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body

Difference between carcinoma and preinvasive cancer

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