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Word: Cancer
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French from Latin, ‘crab’, also denoting various diseases, related to Greek karkinos in the same senses, said to have been applied to such tumours because the swollen veins around them resembled the limbs of a crab. canker was the usual form until the 17th century. Compare with Cancer
ˈkansə
a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body
Short Definition:disease
Examples:- he's got cancer
- lung cancer
an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate
Short Definition:evil phenomenon
Examples:- gambling is a cancer sweeping across the nation
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