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Kevin Bacon

Meaning of "cancerous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CANCEROUS

cancerous  [ˈkænsərəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANCEROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cancerous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CANCEROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cancerous

Cancer

Cancer i/ˈkænsər/, also known as a malignant tumor, is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.[1][2] Not all tumors are cancerous; benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body.[2] Possible signs and symptoms include: a new lump, abnormal bleeding, a prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss, and a change in bowel movements, among others.[3] While these symptoms may indicate cancer they may also occur due to other issues.[3] There are over 100 different known cancers that affect humans.[2] Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths.[1] Another 10% is due to obesity, a poor diet, lack of physical activity, and drinking alcohol.[1] Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation, and environmental pollutants.[4] In the developing world nearly 20% of cancers are due to infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human papillomavirus.[1] These factors act, at least partly, by changing the genes of a cell.[5] Typically many such genetic changes are required before cancer develops.

Definition of cancerous in the English dictionary

The definition of cancerous in the dictionary is relating to, being, or affected by a malignant growth or tumour. Other definition of cancerous is having an evil influence that spreads gradually and dangerously.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CANCEROUS


acerous
ˈæsərəs
adipocerous
ˌædɪˈpɒsərəs
anserous
ˈænsərəs
apsaras
ˈʌpsərəs
brachycerous
bræˈkɪsərəs
dangerous
ˈdeɪndʒərəs
dinoceras
daɪˈnɒsərəs
generous
ˈdʒɛnərəs
Honduras
hɒnˈdjʊərəs
humorous
ˈhjuːmərəs
Monoceros
məˈnɒsərəs
monocerous
mɒˈnɒsərəs
noncancerous
ˌnɒnˈkænsərəs
numerous
ˈnjuːmərəs
rhinoceros
raɪˈnɒsərəs
rhopalocerous
ˌrəʊpəˈlɒsərəs
sorcerous
ˈsɔːsərəs
susurrous
ˈsjuːsərəs
susurrus
ˈsjuːsərəs
ulcerous
ˈʌlsərəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANCEROUS

cancellariate
cancellate
cancellated
cancellation
cancelled
canceller
cancelli
cancelling
cancellous
cancer
cancer patient
cancer specialist
cancer stick
cancer-causing
cancerate
canceration
cancered
Cancerian
cancerophobia
cancerously

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANCEROUS

adulterous
boisterous
cadaverous
coniferous
cruciferous
glamorous
lecherous
metalliferous
murderous
obstreperous
odoriferous
onerous
preposterous
prosperous
seminiferous
serous
slanderous
splendiferous
thunderous
treacherous
tuberous

Synonyms and antonyms of cancerous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cancerous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANCEROUS

Find out the translation of cancerous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cancerous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cancerous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

癌的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cancerígeno
570 millions of speakers

English

cancerous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कैंसर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سرطانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

злокачественными
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canceroso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষয়জনক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cancéreux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kanser
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

krebsartig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

がんの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

암의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanker
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ung thư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புற்று நோய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्करोगक्षम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kanserli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

canceroso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nowotworowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

злоякісними
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

canceroase
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καρκινικών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kanker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cancerös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kreft
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cancerous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANCEROUS»

The term «cancerous» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.262 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANCEROUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cancerous

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6 QUOTES WITH «CANCEROUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cancerous.
1
Kevin Bacon
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
2
Kevin Bacon
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
3
Robert Dallek
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
4
Rachel Kushner
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
5
Robert Shea
One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
6
Eric Topol
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANCEROUS»

Discover the use of cancerous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cancerous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
God's Metaphor - Cancerous Thoughts the Weeds in Your Garden
How to change your thought forms and avoid both physical and spiritual illness. You are what you believe.
Colette Garside, 2007
2
Un Convention Against Corruption to Combat Fraud and ...
An invaluable Book dealing with United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), in force from December 2005, including its evolution, and related UN Convention Against Transnational Organize Crime.
Nihal Sri Ameresekere, 2011
3
Minutes of Cases of Cancer and Cancerous Tendency: ...
son holding Dr. Hamilton's mode of reasoning, for a cancerous ulceration? or, upon the same evidence, 1 would ask, whether, supposing a Cancer to exist in a scrophulous habit, and scrophulous symptoms to be actually thrown out, such ...
Samuel Young, Samuel Whitbread, 1816
4
Cancerous and Other Intra-thoracic Growths: Their Natural ...
The part of the oesophagus below the cancerous mass, as well as the stomach and intestines, were free from cancer. The remaining organs were essentially healthy. In this case it is evident that the disease commenced in a mediastinal growth ...
James Risdon Bennett, 1872
5
Cellular Uptake of Cobalamin in Clinically-derived Blood ...
... 4 h.9 While some of this difference may arise from the intracellular processing of the cobalamin analog, the greatest difference probably arises from the time required to minimize the background uptake of cobalamin by non-cancerous cells.
Yao Shi, 2009
6
The Deleuze Dictionary
Micro-fascism is a cancerous Body without Organs (BwO). The cancerous BwO is the third type of BwO discussed in A Thousand Plateaus, after the 'full' (positively valued in A Thousand Plateaus, though not in Anti-Oedipus, where the full ...
Adrian Parr, 2005
7
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism
In this bold look at the uncontrolled spread of global capitalism, John McMurtry, professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, develops his analysis of modern capitalism as a cancer.
John McMurtry, 1999
8
Grape Seed Extract as an Adjunct for Modulating Colon ...
CHAPTER 2 EXPRESSION OF SELECTED PROTEIN BIOMARKERS IN HUMAN COLONIC TUMORS AND NON-CANCEROUS COLON Abstract Several biochemical pathways and proteins are important in the development of human colonic ...
Kathleen M. Heinz-Taheny, 2007
9
How Cancer Works
Human cells have internal safeguard systems which provide extremely powerful surveillance against cells that lose growth control and become cancerous. In contrast, the external surveillance provided by the immune system is rather limited.
Lauren Sompayrac, 2004
10
Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Micro Beams in Cell ...
(SR) microbeam to the cancerous tissues of the human prostate and the cultured cells in order to investigate the differences of the density and the distribution of zinc in these tissues. In the first part, XRF analysis was applied to the cancerous ...
Ari Ide-Ektessabi, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANCEROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cancerous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cancer drug 49 times more potent than Cisplatin
... that a new generation of drugs is necessary to save more lives and our research points to a highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells". «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
2
Teenagers are increasing their chances of cancer with 'sunburnt art …
The NHS warns that the long-term effects of sunburn can include rough and scaly pre-cancerous spots, skin cancer – including melanoma, eye ... «Thrasher Backer, Jul 15»
3
Tumour sufferer visits scientists trying to stop cancer
After initially being told the tumour was not cancerous it later turned out to be a grade four glioblastoma multiforme and Luke was given a ... «North Devon Journal, Jul 15»
4
Fundraising event in Parksville for family of toddler who has brain …
... is receiving chemotherapy at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver after surgery that removed part of a cancerous tumour that was wrapped ... «Parksville Qualicum Beach News, Jul 15»
5
Georgia woman fosters dying dog, documents final journey on social …
He had surgery to remove tumors but still has a number of cancerous lumps on his body, as well as heartworm. RELATED STORY: Man pays ... «PhillyVoice.com, Jul 15»
6
Brave South Shields boy smashes fundraising target – as he …
Six-year-old Harrison Cochrane, from South Shields, is battling late stage Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which has caused cancerous tumours to grow ... «Shields Gazette, Jul 15»
7
Nvidia attempts to ease the path to deep learning
... of AI capabilities that have accelerated and refined tasks such as object classification, speech recognition, and detection of cancerous cells. «Techworld Australia, Jul 15»
8
Personalized vaccine used to battle skin cancer
By sequencing a person's genome, researchers at Washington University can identify which cells are cancerous. A personalized vaccine is ... «KABC-TV, Jul 15»
9
Patrol K-9, Neeko, passes away June 21 due to cancerous tumor
On June 21, the Rockwall Sheriff's Office's only patrol canine, K-9 Neeko, passed away due to a cancerous tumor that ruptured on his spleen. «Rockwall County Herald Banner, Jul 15»
10
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Reveals He Had Two Cancerous
In the band's initial press release, it was divulged that Dickinson had a cancerous tumor on the back of his tongue, but the frontman reveals in a ... «Loudwire, Jul 15»

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