CANCER OF THE LIVER

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cancer of the liver; liver cancer

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cancer of the liver" is a kind of...):

liver disease (a disease affecting the liver)

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

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