Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sarcoma

Sarcoma , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}, from sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.]

(Medicine) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.