单词 | cancerousness |
释义 | cancerousnessn. Cancerous condition or nature. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1730 N. Bailey Dict. Britannicum Cancerousness,..the being cancerated. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Cancerousness, the state of being cancerous. 1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 196 The exact limit, we believe, at which cancerousness is lost, cannot be marked by any characters of a growth itself. 1886 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Jan. 159/2 The cancerousness or structural infectiveness of the localised condition is a summation or integration of the morbid habit. 1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 91/2 The basic reason why the results of treating cancer are so unsatisfactory is that there has never been a reliable index of ‘cancerousness’ which could be followed through in the same patient. 1990 European Jrnl. Cancer & Clin. Oncol. 26 1006/1 The role of antibodies in diagnosis is to target aspects of the essential cancerousness of a cancer cell that makes it different from normal. 2001 N. Henry Pearl's Secret 283 But I also felt a lingering sadness, sharper than any I had felt previously, over the cancerousness, the sheer wastefulness, of racial prejudice and bigotry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1730 |
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