Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cancer_of_the_liver

1 sense of cancer of the liver

Sense 1
liver cancer, cancer of the liver -- (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)
       => liver disease -- (a disease affecting the liver)
       => carcinoma -- (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)