Having a form or shape resembling a crab, used especially in descriptions of tumors that spread in crab-like patterns.
From 'carcino-' (crab) plus '-morphic' (form or shape). This descriptive term helps pathologists communicate how cancers visually appear when examined under microscopes.
Early doctors literally named cancer 'karkinos' because tumors with spreading tentacle-like projections looked like crabs—'carcinomorphic' keeps that ancient visual comparison alive in modern pathology.
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