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cancer

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream [syn: malignant neoplastic disease ] (astrology) a person who is born while the ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cancer is the first full-length studio album by Australian hardcore / metalcore band Confession , released on 10 September 2009, through Resist Records . The album was recorded at Sound House Studio in Adelaide , Australia and mixed by Roman Koester ( The ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine oncology disease English) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cancer "spreading sore, cancer" (also canceradl ), from Latin cancer "a crab," later, "malignant tumor," from Greek karkinos , which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), ...

Usage examples of cancer.

That was quite a victory over a few years ago, when he had been part of the threepacks aday cancer brigade.

Perhaps an adrenalectomy at the beginning would have helped, says Anna, but it is too late now that cancer has spread.

Just in the same way the mineral waters of Missisquoi, and Bethesda, in America, through containing siliceous qualities so sublimated as almost to defy the analyst, are effective to cure cancer, albuminuria, and other organic complaints.

Bin Ria Dem Loa Alem, was the child of the current partnership -- although the biological child of which woman, I never discovered -- and that he was dying of cancer.

Six months ago, sick with food poisoning in some nameless hospital, he had seen this same look of blind struggle in the eyes of amnesiacs or men dying of cancer.

These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.

He straightened his back, leant forward again so his face was close to mine and I got almost as much of his cancer stick smoke as if I had after all kept the one he had given me.

By 1978 the ensuing misrepresentations and exaggerations formed the basis of an OSHA report that predicted 58,000 to 73,000 cancer deaths each year from asbestos, on the basis of which the government upped its estimate of industry-related cancers from 2 percent to 40 percent.

There were thousands of men throughout Baltimore who had been diagnosed with asbestosis, or the related cancer, mesothelioma.

We link the astatine isotope to carrier molecules that seek out the disseminated microscopic cancers in your brain.

Carl Simonton, a radiation therapist with Oncology Associates, Fort Worth, Texas, uses a combination of meditation, visualization and biofeedback techniques in treating cancer patients.

From the undoubted fact that gene mutations like the Tay-Sachs mutation or chromosomal abnormalities like the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome are the sources of pathological variation, human geneticists have assumed that heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and bipolar syndrome must also be genetic variants.

We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.

Furthermore it possesses a distinct reputation for the cure of cancer, and is known as Cankerwort, being applied when bruised, either by itself, or combined with Goosegrass.

He preached of hell and he preached of salvation, but most of all he preached of the magic prayer cloth that would answer problems, and when treated with the magic blue juice, would cure the gout, rheumsey, cabob disorder, and lung cancer.