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Cancer (plural Cancers)
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From Latin cancer (“‘crab’”), from Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkinos "crab"); applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.
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- (RP) IPA: /ˈkænsə/
- (AusE) IPA: /ˈkæːnsə/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈkænsɚ/
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- (medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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- (a disease): growth, malignancy, neoplasia
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types of cancer
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- Cancer
- cancerous
- canker
- precancerous
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disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation
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Cancer m. (plural Cancers)
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cancer (genitive cancrī); m, second declension
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| Inflection for Cancer | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | Cancer | cancern | cancrar | cancrarna |
| Possessive form | Cancers | cancerns | cancrars | cancrarnas |
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