carcinoid

[ kahr-suh-noid ]

nounPathology.
  1. a small, yellowish amino-acid and peptide-secreting tumor usually found in the gastrointestinal tract and lung.

Origin of carcinoid

1
First recorded in 1925–30; carcin(o)- + -oid

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