Cancer
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English
Noun
Cancer (plural Cancers)- (medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
Adjectives for Cancer
malignant; hereditary; inoperable.
Verbs for Cancer
ascribe to—; control—; detect—; diagnose—; discover—; engraft—; examine for—; excise—; indicate—; lecture on—; localize—; recognize—; reveal—; sacrifice to—; suffer from—; suspect—; treat for—; —advances; —appears; —courses through; —develops; —disables; —eats away; —extends; —lodges; —lurks; —results; —spreads.
Synonyms
- (a disease): growth, malignancy, neoplasia
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- Cancer
- cancerous
- canker
- precancerous
See also
Thesaurus
benign tumor, blast, blight, callosity, callus, canker, carcinoma, corn, cyst, dry rot, excrescence, fungosity, fungus, growth, intumescence, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, mildew, mold, mole, morbid growth, moth, moth and rust, must, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pest, proud flesh, rot, rust, sarcoma, smut, tumor, verruca, wart, wen, worm
Etymology
From Latin cancer (“crab”), from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkinos "crab"); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.
