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Examples of squamous cell in a Sentence
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The most common is urothelial carcinoma, also known as transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), but there are other rarer types known as squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and sarcoma.28
If the pathologist finds cancer, the next step is to stage and grade the malignancy.
—James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
Smoking tobacco doubles the risk of developing head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, which makes up 90% of all head and neck cancers.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
And sun exposure has a clear connection to basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers.
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
My top suspicion was that this was going to be a basal cell skin cancer (the most common form of skin cancer) or squamous cell skin cancer (the second most common form of skin cancer, which starts as a growth of cells).
—Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1907, in the meaning defined above
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“Squamous cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squamous%20cell. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
Medical Definition
squamous cell
noun
: a cell of or derived from squamous epithelium
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