Definition
A type of cancer that begins in the skin or in the tissues that line organs inside the body.
Etymology
It comes from Latin and Greek 'karkinoma', meaning 'cancerous tumor', from 'karkinos', 'crab'. The crab image was used in ancient medicine because the swollen veins around a tumor looked like a crab’s legs.
Kelly Says
The word for this cancer literally comes from 'crab', the same root as the zodiac sign Cancer. Ancient doctors saw tumors as crab-like invaders, and that creepy image is still hiding inside our medical vocabulary.
Translations
ARالعربية
سرطان
sarka.tan
BNবাংলা
ক্যান্সার
kyānsār
DEDeutsch
Karcinom
kar.tsiˈnoːm
ELΕλληνικά
καρκίνος
karˈkino.s
ESEspañol
carcinoma
kar.tʃi.ˈno.ma
FRFrançais
carcinome
kaʁ.si.nɔm
HAHA
ciwon daji
tʃi.wɔn dɑ.dʒi
IDBahasa Indonesia
kanker
kãŋ.ker
IGIG
ọrịa kánser
ɔ.ɾí.a kán.sɛr
ITItaliano
carcinoma
kar.tʃiˈnɔː.ma
KKKK
қатерлі ісік
qaterli isik
MSBahasa Melayu
barah
ba.rɑh
NLNederlands
kanker
kɑŋ.ker
PLPolski
nowotwór złośliwy
nɔ.votˈfuɾ ˈzwɔɕli.wɨ
PTPortuguês
carcinoma
kɐʁ.si.ˈno.mɐ
SWKiswahili
saratani
sa.ra.ta.ni
TAதமிழ்
புற்றுநோய்
puṟṟu.nōy
TEతెలుగు
క్యాన్సర్
kyānsar
TRTürkçe
karsinom
karsi.nom
VITiếng Việt
ung thư
ʔuŋ tʰɨ̂
YOYO
àrùn kánser
à.rùn kán.sɛr
ZUZU
isifo sesi
i.si.fo se.si