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Related / Similar Words: genus Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab, cancer, malignant neoplastic disease

 

Definition:
  • type genus of the family Cancridae;
  • the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22;
  • a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini;
  • (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer;
  • any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream;

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    Hyponyms: lymphoma, carcinoma, leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood, sarcoma

     

    Part Meronyms: zodiac

     

    Member Meronyms: Cancridae, family Cancridae

     

    Anagrams: careen, arcane

     

    Language Translations:
    Albanian: kancer   Arabic: السرطان  
    Bosnian: rak   Bulgarian: рак  
    Catalan: càncer   Chinese: 恶性肿瘤  
    Croatian: rak   Danish: kræft  
    Dutch: kanker   Esperanto: kancero  
    Estonian: vähktõbi   Finnish: Krapu and syöpä  
    French: Cancer   Georgian: კიბო  
    German: Krebs   Greek: καρκίνος  
    Hebrew: סרטן   Hungarian: Rák  
    Icelandic: krabbamein   Indonesian: kanker  
    Italian: Cancro   Japanese: 悪性腫瘍  
    Korean: 암   Latvian: vēzis  
    Lithuanian: vėžys   Malay: penyakit barah  
    Maltese: Kanċer   Norwegian: kreft  
    Persian: sc=FAchar   Polish: nowotwór złośliwy and Rak  
    Portuguese: câncer   Romanian: cancer  
    Russian: Рак and рак   Slovak: rak  
    Slovene: Rak   Spanish: Cáncer  
    Swedish: cancer and Kräftan   Thai: sc=THchar  
    Turkish: Kanser   Vietnamese: ung thư  
    Welsh: cancr   Yiddish: (rak)  
     
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