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noun
MedicineOriginally: cancer as a disease or disease process (now rare). In later use: = "carcinomatosis".
Origin
Mid 19th century. Probably partly from scientific Latin carcinosis, and partly from carcin- + -osis, after French carcinose, German Karzinose.
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