CANCER
\kˈansə], \kˈansə], \k_ˈa_n_s_ə]\
Definitions of CANCER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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type genus of the family Cancridae
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the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
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the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
By Princeton University
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A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
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Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
By Oddity Software
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A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
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Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
By Noah Webster.
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New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms.
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One of the twelve divisions, called Signs, through which the sun passes in its yearly course; this sign, represented by a crab, is the northernmost point of the sun's course; the sign of the summer solstice, or the time when the sun is farthest from the equator; cancer, a disease characterized by a tumor or growth very dangerous to life.
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Cancerous.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Cancerous.
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A malignant and commonly fatal tumor; any inveterate and spreading evil.
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The Crab, a zodiacal constellation or sign. See TROPIC.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A crab.' Car'cinos, Lupus cancro'sus. A disease, so called either on account of the hideous appearance which the ulcerated cancer presents, or on account of the great veins which surround it, and which the ancients compared to the claws of the crab: called also Carcino'ma. It consists of a scirrhous, livid tumour, intersected by firm, whitish, divergent bands; and occurs chiefly in the secernent glands. The pains are acute and lancinating, and often extend to other parts. The tumour, ultimately, terminates in a fetid and ichorous ulcer,-Uleus cancro'sum. It is distinguished, according to its stages, into occult, Cancer occul'tus, and open, C. aper'tus; the former being the scirrhous, the latter the ulcerated condition. At times, there is a simple destruction or erosion of the organ, at others, an encephaloid or cerebriform, and, at others, again, a colloid degeneration. For its production, it requires a peculiar diathesis, or cachexia. The following table, from Dr. Walshe, exhibits the characters of the three species of carcinoma: The use of irritants in cancerous affections is strongly to be deprecated. When the disease is so situate that excision can be practised, and the constitution does not exhibit great contamination, the sooner it is removed the better.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Popular term for malignant tumors, infiltrations, and ulcers: (carcinoma) restricted by Virchow to those that are wholly or partly of epithelial origin.
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All tumors in which there is infiltration and apparently independent growth of epithelial or gland cells, whether slightly or markedly atypical, into the surrounding tissue
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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