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Definition cancer

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.

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.

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CANCER 13
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ACNE 8
ACRE 7
CANE 8
CARE 7
CARN 8
CECA 10
EARN 5
NARC 8
NEAR 5
RACE 7
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ACE 6
ANE 4
ARC 6
ARE 3
CAN 7
CAR 6
EAR 3
ERA 3
ERN 4
NAE 4
RAN 4
REC 6
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AE 2
AN 3
AR 2
EN 3
ER 2
NA 3
NE 3
RE 2

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