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Scirrhus :: Scirrhus (n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised..

Colloid :: Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid 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)..

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..

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..

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..

Crab :: Crab (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

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..

Root :: Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like..

Cancroid :: Cancroid (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer..

Cancriform :: Cancriform (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous.

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..

Epithelioma :: Epithelioma (n.) A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.

Cancerite :: Cancerite (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.

Xanthosis :: Xanthosis (n.) The yellow discoloration often observed in cancerous tumors.

Cancerated :: Cancerated (imp. & p. p.) of Cancerat.

Encephaloid :: Encephaloid (n.) An encephaloid cancer.

Cancroid :: Cancroid (a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor..

Solanoid :: Solanoid (a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

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