Crance vs Cancer - What's the difference?
crance | cancer |
(nautical) An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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, title= (figuratively) Something which spreads within something else, damaging the latter.
As nouns the difference between crance and cancer
is that crance is (nautical) an iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay while cancer is cancer.crance
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* crans, cranje, cranseNoun
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*cancer
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* (wikipedia "cancer")Noun
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Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
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