'cancerous' definitions:
Definition of 'cancerous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth"
adjective
Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
Definition of 'cancerous'
From: GCIDE
- cancerous \can"cer*ous\, a. [Cf. F. canc['e]reux] Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth. "cancerous vices" --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] -- {Can"cer*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Can"cer*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'cancerous'
- Cancer,
- Cancerate,
- Cancerated,
- Canceration,
- Cancerously,
- Cancerousness,
- Cancer borealis,
- Cancer cells,
- Cancer irroratus,
- Cancer padurus,
- Cancer root,
- Colloid cancer,
- Encephaloid cancer,
- Hard cancer,
- Medullary cancer,
- Scirrhous cancer or Hard cancer,
- Soft cancer,
- Tropic of Cancer,
- breast cancer,
- cancer body,
- cancer cell,
- cancer drug,
- cancer juice,
- cancer magister,
- cancer of the blood,
- cancer of the liver,
- cancer the crab,
- cancer weed,
- colon cancer,
- endometrial cancer,
- epithelial cancer,
- genus cancer,
- glandular cancer,
- liver cancer,
- lung cancer,
- oral cancer,
- pancreatic cancer,
- preinvasive cancer,
- prostate cancer,
- skin cancer,
- testicular cancer,
- trophoblastic cancer,
- Epithelial cancer or Epithelioma