cancer
cancer - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkænsə/
- (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkæːnsə/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈkænsɚ/
Noun
cancer (countable and uncountable, plural cancers)
- (medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
- (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
Synonyms
- (disease): malignancy
- (something which spreads): growth, lichen
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- benign tumor
- benign neoplasm
- benign neoplasia
Derived terms
types of cancer; hyponymic
- abdominal cancer
- anal cancer
- bile duct cancer
- biliary tract cancer
- black cancer
- bladder cancer
- blood cancer
- boob cancer
- bowel cancer
- brain cancer
- breast cancer
- cervical cancer
- cheek cancer
- chimney sweep's cancer
- colon cancer
- colonic cancer
- colorectal cancer
- duodenal cancer
- ear cancer
- esophageal cancer
- eye cancer
- gallbladder cancer
- gastric cancer
- gay cancer
- green cancer
- gum cancer
- head-neck cancer
- head and neck cancer
- heart cancer
- hypopharyngeal cancer
- I have cancer
- intestinal cancer
- jaw cancer
- kidney cancer
- laryngeal cancer
- larynx cancer
- lip cancer
- liver cancer
- lung cancer
- lymphatic cancer
- lymph gland cancer
- lymph node cancer
- mouth cancer
- mule spinner's cancer
- mule spinners' cancer
- nasal cancer
- neck and head cancer
- neck cancer
- nose cancer
- ocular cancer
- oesophageal cancer
- oral cancer
- oropharyngeal cancer
- ovarian cancer
- pancreatic cancer
- penile cancer
- pharyngeal cancer
- pharynx cancer
- prostate cancer
- rectal cancer
- renal cancer
- scrotal cancer
- skin cancer
- small intestine cancer
- stomach cancer
- swamp cancer
- testicular cancer
- throat cancer
- thyroid cancer
- tongue cancer
- tonsil cancer
- triple negative breast cancer
- uterine cancer
- vaginal cancer
- walking skin cancer
- womb cancer
- cancerwort (Kickxia spp.)
- cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens)
- cancer stick
- cancer root
Related terms
- Cancer
- cancerization
- cancerize
- cancerous
- canker
- carcinogen
- chancre
- precancerous
Descendants
Translations
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Adjective
cancer (comparative more cancer, superlative most cancer)
- (slang) Extremely unpleasant and annoying.
Anagrams
cancer - Chinese
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ken1 saa2
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ken1 saa2
- Yale: colloquial sounds not defined
- Cantonese Pinyin: ken1 saa2
- Guangdong Romanization: colloquial sounds not defined
- Sinological IPA : /kʰɛːn⁵⁵ saː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
cancer
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) cancer (disease)
- 生cancer [Cantonese] ― saang1 ken1 saa2 [Jyutping] ― to have cancer
Synonyms
cancer - Danish
Noun
cancer c (singular definite canceren, not used in plural form)
- cancer (disease)
- (slang) Something perceived as bad.
Declension
| common gender | Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | cancer | canceren |
| genitive | cancers | cancerens |
cancer - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɑ̃.sɛʁ/
Noun
cancer m (plural cancers)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
cancer - Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /ˈkan.ker/, [ˈkäŋkɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkan.t͡ʃer/, [ˈkän̠ʲt͡ʃer]
Noun
cancer m (genitive cancrī); second declension
- a crab
- (Astronomy) the constellation Cancer
- a tumor, cancer
- Synonym: carcinōma
- a lattice, grid, or barrier
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cancer | cancrī |
| Genitive | cancrī | cancrōrum |
| Dative | cancrō | cancrīs |
| Accusative | cancrum | cancrōs |
| Ablative | cancrō | cancrīs |
| Vocative | cancer | cancrī |
- In classical Latin, generally declined as a masculine noun of the second declension with the stem cancro-, but Lucretius uses a genitive singular form canceris (De Rerum Natura 5.617) and Cato the Elder uses a plural form canceres (De Agri Cultura 157.3.4), which are third-declension forms built on a stem cancer-. The grammarians Charisius and Priscian describe a use as a neuter noun, with Priscian specifying that this applies when the word is used for the illness; the neuter occurs sporadically in later Christian authors.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: cáncanu, cancru, cangru (“crab louse”), cangrexu
- → Old English: cancer
- Old French: chancre
- Friulian: cancar (from a dialectal variant *cáncaro), granç (via Late Latin cancrus)
- Galician: cáncaro, cángaro, cancro, cangrio; cangrexo
- → Middle Irish: cainncer
- Italian: granchio (via Late Latin cancrus)
- Old Occitan:
- Portuguese: carango (“crab louse”)
- Sicilian: càncaru, granciu, grancifudduni
- → Maltese: granċ
- Old Spanish: cangro
- ⇒ Spanish: cangrejo
- → Asturian: cangrexu
- → Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
- → Portuguese: caranguejo
- ⇒ Spanish: cangrejo
- Venetian: cancaro (from a dialectal variant *cáncaro), granso (via Late Latin cancrus)
Learned borrowings:
cancer - Old English
Alternative forms
- cancor
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɑn.ker/, [ˈkɑŋ.ker]
Noun
cancer m
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cancer | cancras |
| accusative | cancer | cancras |
| genitive | cancres | cancra |
| dative | cancre | cancrum |
Derived terms
- cancerādl
- cancerhæbern
- cancerwund
Descendants
cancer - Romanian
Noun
cancer n (plural cancere)
Declension
Related terms
cancer - Swedish
Noun
cancer c
Declension
| Declension of cancer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | cancer | cancern | cancrar | cancrarna |
| Genitive | cancers | cancerns | cancrars | cancrarnas |
Synonyms
- kräfta (obsolete)
Derived terms
- blodcancer
- bröstcancer
- cancerframkallande
- cancersvulst
- hudcancer
- koloncancer
- levercancer
- livmodercancer
- livmoderhalscancer
- lungcancer
- lymfcancer
- magcancer
- prostatacancer
- skelettcancer
- sköldkörtelcancer
- strupcancer
- tarmcancer
- testikelcancer
- tjocktarmscancer
- underlivscancer
- uteruscancer
- äggstockscancer
- ändtarmscancer