cancer

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n. 癌, 恶性肿瘤 [医] 癌

发音

UK /ˈkænsə/
AU /ˈkæːnsə/
US /ˈkænsɚ/

词形变化

cancers 复数 cancers more cancer 比较级 most cancer 最高级

别名

c.

教材释义与例句

名词

癌症；恶性肿瘤

a very serious disease in which cells in one part of the body start to grow in a way that is not normal

A lot of cancers can now be treated successfully.

现在许多癌症可以治愈。

She was told last year that she had cancer .

去年她得知自己患了癌症。

He died of cancer last month.

上个月他死于癌症。

a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cells

一种能有效杀死癌细胞的新疗法

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

    癌症

    癌

    可数 不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

    可数 比喻 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Extremely unpleasant and annoying.

    冒犯 俚语 粗俗

    I used to love this game, but the new meta is straight up cancer.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

crab

上位词 3

actor worker doer

下位词 6

leukemia lymphoma leukaemia carcinoma leucaemia sarcoma

相关短语

cancer sticks cancer stick 癌棒 cancer root [医] 癌根 cancer roots cancer bush cancer bushes cancer cell 癌细胞 cancer cells cancer cell-like mismatch repair cancer syndrome skin cancer 皮肤癌 breast cancer n. 乳癌 Tropic of Cancer 北回归线 lung cancer 肺癌

词源

Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”) (possibly cognate), applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.

来源：wiktionary