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cancer

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  • a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere
  • any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division
  • (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
  • the fourth sign of the zodiac
  • type genus of the family Cancridae
  • 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
  • The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun´s course in summer
  • 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

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