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- 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.
- Cancer - n. - The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
- Cancer - n. - A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
- 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.
- Cancerate - v. i. - To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.
- Cancerated - imp. & p. p. - of Cancerate
- Canceration - n. - The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
- Cancerite - n. - Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
- Solstice - v. i. - The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
- Squawroot - n. - A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
- Cachexy - n. - A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
- Rodent - v. t. - Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.