Cancer vs Cancerously - What's the difference?
cancer | cancerously |
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
* 2005 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral: a novel , page 323:
With cancer.
As a noun cancer
is cancer.As an adverb cancerously is
in a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.cancer
English
* (wikipedia "cancer")Noun
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Synonyms
* (disease) growth, malignancy, neoplasia * (something which spreads) lichenHyponyms
* tumor * leukaemia, leukemiaDerived terms
(types of cancer) * bowel cancer * breast cancer * colon cancer * leukemia * testicular cancer * lung cancer * prostate cancer * ovarian cancer * skin cancer * cervical cancerSee also
* malignantAnagrams
* ----cancerously
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He was motionless for a moment, breathing deeply, and then he separated himself from them, leaning his body away, with a distaste that he could feel growing cancerously .
- cancerously diseased cells