any cancer with a soft (rather than scirrhous) texture.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > cancer > types of (13) soft cancer1804 any cancer with a soft (rather than scirrhous) texture. soot-wart?1810 (see quot. 1810). melanosis1826 Malignant melanoma. Obsolete. mastoid cancer1846 mastoid cancer n. Pathology a firm, fleshy tumour having a cut surface thought to resemble breast or udder tissue; cf. mammary sarcoma at mammary… skin cancer1847 cancer arising from or situated in the skin, (in later use) esp. squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma; an instance of this. cancroid1854 A disease resembling cancer; also a synonym of epithelial cancer. epithelioma1872 (See quot. 1876.) soot-cancer1878 (see quot.). scirrhus1881 Medicine. Originally: a hard tumour or swelling; an abnormally hard area of tissue, esp. in a glandular organ. In later use: spec. a cancer with a… chimney-sweep's cancer1888 = chimney-sweeper, n. 1 (Now also simply sweep, n.) chimney-sweep's cancer: see chimney-sweeper, n. 1b. peau d'orange1896 Thickening and pitting of an area of skin, usually resulting from oedema or lymphoedema, typically in association with breast cancer. pigskin1898 Medicine. = peau d'orange, n. Frequently attributive. Now rare. medullary carcinoma1926 with little stroma (cf. sense 3); spec. a type of thyroid carcinoma derived from the calcitonin-secreting parafollicular cells. |
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