Cancer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANCER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a malignant growth
• a constellation (the Crab), said to represent a crab crushed under the foot of Hercules. It contains the globular star cluster of Praesepe or the Beehive.
• used with preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation
• the fourth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters at the northern summer solstice (about 21 June).
• a person born when the sun is in the sign of Cancer.
• serious disease resulting from a malignant growth or tumour
• 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.
• 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.
• A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
• 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.
• 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
• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
• a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini
• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
• type genus of the family Cancridae

Words related to CANCER

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How to use CANCER in a sentence

• They had not been there eighteen months before the mother sickened and died horribly of cancer.
• How can it be? One hears a lot of the rigorous research into the problem of cancer that is now going on.
• Care is the cancer of the heart, and if our words can go no deeper than they have yet gone, it can never be cured.
• An Exact definition of cancer and the method of approach for its cure.
• An Exact definition of cancer and the method of approach for its cure, chapter 3 continued.
• But Eratosthenes executed one between Syene and Alexandria, in Egypt, Syene being supposed to be exactly under the tropic of Cancer.
• Yes, and amid its hideous wrong no doubt there was good in slavery, as there is in cancer or blindness.
• It is like a cancer, eating into the heart of poetry.
• Twenty out of twenty women could get breast cancer.
• The natives of this island are also subject to the cancer, or a complaint like it, which those whom it attacks are very careful to conceal.
• Cancer is one of the chronic diseases apparently on the increase.
• Then, at Christ’s time, it appeared in the sign of Aquarius, but not it hath manifested itself from the sign of Cancer.
• It is pretty well established at the present time that cancer is a disease of meat eating men and animals.
• About one cow in fifty has cancer, whereas every seventh dog taken to a hospital sick is found to have cancer.
• The House of the Sun was in Leo, and that of the Moon in Cancer.
• Cancer includes the stars Aselli, little asses, device of Issachar, 461-l.
• The cancer of to-day is the cancer known to Paulus Eginaeta.
• This day, by the reckoning of our Pilots, we were right vnder the Tropike of Cancer.
• The 24 we were directly vnder the tropike of Cancer.
• It lay, with the mortal threat of a cancer, in the political body of the party.
• During the later years of her childhood, her mother was grievously afflicted with a cancer, which caused her death in 1794, before Theodosia had completed her twelfth year.
• Ahmed, after a splendid and tumultuous reign of twenty-six years, died of cancer in 1773.
• Thus, others need not be disturbed save by the demands made on their sympathies by an individual with a cold in the head or a cancer of the stomach.
• The sun is then farthest north, being over the Tropic of Cancer.

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