skin cancer

English Thesaurus

1. a malignant neoplasm of the skin (noun.state)

hypernym	:	carcinoma,
definition	:	any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer (noun.state)

hyponym	:	cancroid, squamous cell carcinoma,
definition	:	the most common form of skin cancer (noun.state)

hyponym	:	epithelioma,
definition	:	a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue (noun.state)

hyponym	:	malignant melanoma, melanoma,
definition	:	any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes (noun.state)