Cancer

From Fresh Dictionary

See also: Cancer, cáncer, Cáncer, càncer

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Related terms 1.3 See also 2 Latin 2.1 Alternative Spellings 2.2 Noun

English

Etymology

Latin a crab. Applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins ressembled the legs of a crab.

Noun

cancer (Plural: cancers)

1. A disease where the cells of various body tissues begin uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

Translations

Albanian: kancer Arabic: السرطان Azeri: xərçəng Bosnian: rak m. Bulgarian: рак (rak) m. Catalan: càncer Chinese: 恶性肿瘤 Croatian: rak m. Czech: rakovina Danish: kræft Dutch: kanker Esperanto: kancero Estonian: vähktõbi Finnish: syöpä French: cancer Georgian: კიბო (kibo) German: Krebs Greek: καρκίνος (karkínos) Hebrew: סרטן Hungarian: rák Indonesian: kanker Italian: cancro

Japanese: æ‚ªæ€§è «ç˜ (あくせい し゠よう) (akusei shuyō) Korean: 암 (am) Latvian: vēzis Lithuanian: vėžys Malay: penyakit barah Norwegian: kreft Persian: نج Polish: nowotwór złośliwy Portuguese: cancro Romanian: cancer Russian: рак (rak) Serbian: Cyrillic: рак m. Roman: rak m. Slovak: rak m. Spanish: cáncer Swedish: cancer Thai: มะเร็ง Turkish: kanser Uyghur: (raki) Vietnamese: ung thÆ° Welsh: cancr Yiddish: (rak)

Related terms

• cancerous
• bowel cancer
• breast cancer
• colon cancer
• lung cancer
• prostate cancer
• skin cancer

See also

• canker
• leukaemia, leukemia

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Latin

Alternative Spellings

cancer m (Plural: canceres)

cancer n (Plural: cancera)

Noun

cancer (genitive: canceris); m., third declension; (plural: cancri)

1. A crab
2. A tumor, canceret:cancer

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