cancer
noun
[ ˈkansə ]
• a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
• "he's got cancer"
Origin:
Old English, from Latin, ‘crab or creeping ulcer’, translating Greek karkinos, said to have been applied to such tumours because the swollen veins around them resembled the limbs of a crab. canker was the usual form until the 17th century Compare with Cancer.
