Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
small–cell lung cancer Function:
noun : cancer of a highly malignant form that affects the lungs, tends to metastasize to other parts of the body, andis characterized by small round or oval cells resembling oat grains and having a high ratio of nuclear protoplasm to cytoplasm called also
oat-cell cancer, oat-cell carcinoma,small-cell carcinoma, small-cell lung carcinoma
