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单词 cancer
释义

cancer1

/ˈkansə /
noun [mass noun]
1A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body: he’s got cancer lung cancer...
  • Members suffer from illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and asthma.
  • Denos died last Wednesday after a long battle against cancer and the lung disease emphysema.
  • This may predispose people to conditions such as cancer and heart disease.
1.1 [count noun] A malignant growth or tumour resulting from an uncontrolled division of cells: most skin cancers are curable...
  • Most stomach cancers form a tumour or an ulcer in the inner lining of the stomach.
  • In almost all bladder cancers, the cancer cells show a loss of part of the long arm of chromosome number 9.
  • In almost all cancers, the cancer cells are found to have a mutation in one or more genes.

Synonyms

malignant growth, cancerous growth, malignant tumour, tumour, malignancy
technical carcinoma, sarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma, myeloma, neoplasm, metastasis, neurofibroma, teratoma, fibroadenoma, meningioma
1.2 [count noun] An evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate: racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe...
  • Depression is a cancer of the soul, it eats away at the core of who you are and replaces it with doubt and pain and fear.
  • Those people are a cancer in our society and they deserve to be in jail.
  • the financial services industry is like a cancer in our society.

Synonyms

evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague;
rot, corruption

Origin

Old English, from Latin, 'crab or creeping ulcer', translating Greek karkinos, said to have been applied to such tumours because the swollen veins around them resembled the limbs of a crab. canker was the usual form until the 17th century Compare with Cancer.

  • The pattern of swollen veins around malignant tumours gave them the name cancer because they looked like the limbs of a crab—cancer in Latin. In English canker (Middle English) was the usual form for the disease until the 17th century, when canker became the term for various plant diseases. The medical term carcinoma (early 18th century) comes from karkinos, Greek for ‘crab’.

Rhymes

Cancer2

/ˈkansə /
1 Astronomy A constellation (the Crab), said to represent a crab crushed under the foot of Hercules. It contains the globular star cluster of Praesepe or the Beehive.
1.1 (as genitive Cancri ˈkaŋkri) Used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation: the star Delta Cancri
2 Astrology The fourth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters at the northern summer solstice (about 21 June).
2.1 (a Cancer) A person born when the sun is in the sign of Cancer.Traditionally, the caring professions attract sun-sign Cancers, but professions connected with the past also appeal greatly, as does cookery....
  • I'm a Cancer, I hate avocados and most animals, and I'm in a band you've never heard of called The Like.
  • Unlike most Cancers, natives of this Sun-Moon sign do not feel the need to guard their emotions.

Phrases

tropic of Cancer

Origin

Latin.

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