A cancerous tumor or malignant growth affecting a joint.
From Greek 'arthron' (joint) + 'carcinoma' (cancer). The term combines the joint root with the medical term for cancer, precisely naming malignancies in joint tissue.
Cancer in the joints is mercifully rare, which is why this word barely appears in medical literature—when diseases are named but rarely encountered, it shows how specialized medical vocabulary has become.
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