| 释义 |
cancroid, a. and n.|ˈkæŋkrɔɪd, -əʊɪd|
In sense 2 also -ide.
[f. L. cancer, cancr- crab + -oid. In sense 2 after F. cancroïde.]
A. adj.
1. Like the crab in structure.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxv. 705 In the cancroid spiders. 1852Dana Crust. i. 65 These are Cancroid in the..branchial peculiarities.
2. Pathol. Resembling cancer.
1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 591/1 Of a cancerous or cancroid nature. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 513 Cancer of the lips is generally applied to epithelioma or cancroid disease, true cancer or carcinoma being very rare.
B. n.
1. A crustacean of the crab family.
1852Dana Crust. i. 48 The outer antennæ are small, as in the Cancroids.
2. A disease resembling cancer; also a synonym of epithelial cancer.
1851in Mayne Exp. Lex. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V 593/2 Scirrhous or Hard Cancer and Cancroid are by no means so common. 1872F. Thomas Dis. Women 519 Malignant disease..in two forms, cancer and cancroid. |