giant-cell tumor

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giant-cell tumor

1. a rare bone tumor of dogs and cats with benign and malignant variants arising from primitive stromal elements of the bone marrow, composed of a spindle cell stroma containing multinucleated giant cells resembling osteoclasts.

2. carcinoma of the thyroid, a highly malignant undifferentiated neoplasm derived from poorly differentiated thyroid follicular cells.

3. giant cell epulis. See peripheral giant cell reparative granuloma.

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