carcinoma vs small cell carcinoma

small cell carcinoma vs carcinoma

carcinoma and small cell carcinoma both are nouns.

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

As nouns, small cell carcinoma is a hyponym of carcinoma; that is, small 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
small 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, oat cell carcinoma, oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, seminoma, testicular cancer, skin cancer, trophoblastic cancer.

carcinoma (noun)	small 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 small cell carcinoma

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