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Definition of Cancerous
1. Adjective. Relating to or affected with cancer. "A cancerous growth"
2. Adjective. Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads. "Pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
Definition of Cancerous
1. a. Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Definition of Cancerous
1. Adjective. (oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer. ¹
2. Adjective. Growing or spreading evil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cancerous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cancerous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancerous
Literary usage of Cancerous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"The whole of the lower half of the cavity of the body was filled by an irregularly
nodulated cancerous mass, covered with hypertrophied mucous membrane, ..."
2. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1860)
"STRUCTURE AND LIFE OF cancerous GROWTHS. I ENDEAVORED to illustrate, in the last
lecture, those two conditions which, judging from the general history of ..."
3. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1812)
"These were extremely hard, of a white colour, and resembled exactly in their
structure the cancerous masses which are formed in the stomach. ..."
4. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"The cancerous ulcers of the skin may occur from the irritation a contact of
secretions, as of the urine, or an unhealthy and specific action m»y set up in ..."
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