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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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taxol
English
Etymology
Named by the researchers who isolated it from the bark of the Pacific yew in 1967, Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani, from the scientific Latin term Taxus (a genus name).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæks?l/
Noun
taxol (plural taxols)
- (chemistry, pharmacology) A taxane, C47H51NO14, used to treat cancer; Taxol.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001), page 20:
- The powerful anti-cancer drug taxol is extracted from the leaves of the yew tree.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001), page 20:
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