Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-4139960-20130910212758/@comment-188432-20130911155910

I've done a more complete check of Doctor Who and the Zarbi. Yes, it's called the Centre, but it's also more simply called Zarbi Headquarters. As you may know the earliest novelisations took far more liberties with the script than the usual Terrance Dicks Target house style. So you have to really do some digging to find comparable scenes.

There are two major scenes where the Carsinome is discussed in the TV version: one where Vrestin explains it to Ian in episode three and one where Hrostar gives a different account to Barbara in "Crater of Needles". I honestly had a problem finding the comparable Ian/Vrestin scene in the book, but the Hrostar/Barbara scene shows how the book simply ignores the Carsinome:

The whole concept of this living thing that encircles Vortis and forced the Vrestin and his lot to leave the plant and settle on a moon is simply absent from the book. In fact the word moon doesn't appear at all in the book, despite being a fairly integral part of Vrestin's backstory in the serial.

So wherever this alternate spelling of Carsinome is coming from, it's definitely not the novelisation.