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cancer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), by metathesis from Ancient Greek ???????? (karkínos, “crab”); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæns?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?kæ?ns?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæns?/
- Rhymes: -æns?(?)
Noun
cancer (countable and uncountable, plural cancers)
- (medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
- (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
Synonyms
- (disease): growth, malignancy, neoplasia
- (something which spreads): lichen
Hyponyms
- tumor
- leukaemia, leukemia
Derived terms
- cancerwort (Kickxia spp.)
- cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens)
- cancer stick
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ????? (kainsar)
- ? Urdu: ?????? (kainsar)
Translations
See also
- benignancy (benignity)
- leukemia
- lymphoma
- malignancy
- melanoma
References
- cancer at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cancer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- crance
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer.
Noun
cancer c (singular definite canceren, not used in plural form)
- cancer (disease)
- (slang) Something perceived as bad.
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer. Doublet of chancre, which was inherited, and cancre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.s??/
Noun
cancer m (plural cancers)
- cancer
Derived terms
- cancer vert
Related terms
- cancre
- chancre
Further reading
- “cancer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”) in the sense of "enclosure", and as such a doublet of carcer. Cognate with curvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kan.ker/, [?kä?k?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kan.t??er/, [?k?n??t???r]
Noun
cancer m (genitive cancr?); second declension
- a crab
- a tumor, cancer
- a lattice, grid, or barrier
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Derived terms
- cancellus
Descendants
References
- cancer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cancer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cancer in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[3]
- Jerry R. Craddock, "The Romance descendants of Latin cancer and vespa", in: Romance Philology, Vol. 60 (2006), pp. 1–42.
Old English
Alternative forms
- cancor
Etymology
From Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.ker/, [?k??.ker]
Noun
cancer m
- cancer
- crab
Declension
Derived terms
- cancer?dl
- cancerhæbern
- cancerwund
Descendants
- Middle English: canker, cancre, cancer, cankre, cankyr, kankir, kanker (partially from Old French cancre)
- English: canker
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “cancer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cancer, French cancer.
Noun
cancer n (plural cancere)
- cancer
Declension
Related terms
- canceros
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
cancer c
- (medicine, oncology) cancer
Synonyms
- kräfta (obsolete)
Declension
Related terms
- cancersvulst
- bröstcancer
- hudcancer
- lungcancer
References
- cancer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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igovomab
English
Noun
igovomab (uncountable)
- A mouse monoclonal antibody for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer that is no longer available.
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