Definition of cancer

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Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic..

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Cancriform :: Cancriform (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous.
Encephaloid :: Encephaloid (n.) An encephaloid cancer.
Mormal :: Mormal (n.) A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.
Mygale :: Mygale (n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii)..
Squawweed :: Squawroot (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
Cancerated :: Cancerated (imp. & p. p.) of Cancerat.
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab..
Tropic :: Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23? 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic..
Carcinoma :: Carcinoma (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer..
Solanoid :: Solanoid (a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Leo :: Leo (n.) A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic..
Rodent :: Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Canceration :: Canceration (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
Cancerite :: Cancerite (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Scirrhus :: Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
Cancroid :: Cancroid (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer..
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