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English

Etymology

melano- +? -oma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l??no?m?/
• enPR: m?l?n?mä
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

melanoma (plural melanomas or melanomata)

1. (oncology, medicine) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

Usage notes

The term malignant melanoma is synonymous with melanoma in present-day medicine because the molecular biologic understanding and convened terminology of benign and malignant cutaneous neoplasms have been refined since the term melanoma entered use. While this makes malignant melanoma technically redundant, the term remains in frequent use alongside its now-synonymous counterpart. More details are offered at Melanoma § Terminology.

Synonyms

• black cancer (see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880)
• (variant) Melanome (see The Washington Post citation from 1904)

Derived terms

See also

• carcinoma

Translations

Asturian

Noun

melanoma f (plural melanomes)

1. melanoma (type of skin tumor)

Catalan

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomes)

1. (oncology) melanoma

Further reading

• “melanoma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melanoma” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “melanoma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Italian

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomi)

1. (oncology) melanoma

Anagrams

• anelammo

Portuguese

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

1. (oncology) melanoma (type of skin tumour)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mela?noma/, [me.la?no.ma]

Noun

melanoma m (plural melanomas)

1. melanoma

Further reading

• “melanoma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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)

1. (medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
2. (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)

1. cancer (disease)
2. (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)

1. 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

1. a crab
2. a tumor, cancer
3. 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

1. cancer
2. 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)

1. cancer

Declension

Related terms

• canceros

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

cancer c

1. (medicine, oncology) cancer

Synonyms

• kräfta (obsolete)

Declension

Related terms

• cancersvulst
• bröstcancer
• hudcancer
• lungcancer

References

• cancer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)