Cancerin

/ˈkænsəɹɪn/ noun

A hypothetical cancer-causing substance or principle (now obsolete medical term).

From cancer + -in (suffix forming names of substances or principles), a Victorian-era medical coinage from when doctors searched for a single 'cancer principle.'

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