Definitions
Disease in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”) (possibly cognate), applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.
Used in a sentence
“Cancers are common diseases; in the aggregate, they are among the leading causes of death nationally and worldwide, and their incidence is increasing as the population ages.”
“I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the President himself would be killed by it.”
“The disease of the self runs through my blood; It's a cancer fatal to my soul.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Serious disease”6 letters
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