Cancer vs Sickness - What's the difference?
cancer | sickness | Synonyms |
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Cancer is a synonym of sickness.
As nouns the difference between cancer and sickness
is that cancer is cancer while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.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
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- I do lament the sickness of the king. -
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.