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

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

Cachexy :: Cachexy (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle)..

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

Cundurango :: Cundurango (n.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer..

Rodent :: Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

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..

Carcinosys :: Carcinosys (n.) The affection of the system with cancer.

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

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

Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion..

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..

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

Cancerate :: Cancerate (v. i.) To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.

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

Epithelial :: Epithelial (a.) Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells; epithelial cancer..

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

Canceration :: Canceration (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Mormal :: Mormal (n.) A bad sore; a gangrene; a cancer.

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..

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