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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Carcinoma :: Carcinoma (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer..

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

Leo :: Leo (n.) A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle..

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..

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

Hydra :: Hydra (n.) A southern constellation of great length lying southerly from Cancer, Leo, and Virgo..

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..

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

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)..

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

Squawweed :: Squawroot (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

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