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<hw>Can`cel*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cancellatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>cancellation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act, process, or result of canceling; <as>as, the <ex>cansellation</ex> of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.</def>

<h1>Cancelli</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can*cel"li</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L., a lattice. See <er>Cancel</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the have of a church, or in a window.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.</def>

<h1>Cancellous</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cel*lous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>cancellosus</ets> covered with bars.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; <as>as, the <ex>cancellous</ex> texture of parts of many bones</as>.</def>

<h1>Cancer</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cancer</ets>, <ets>cancri</ets>, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. <?/, Skr. <ets>karka<?/a</ets> crab, and prob. Skr. <ets>karkara</ets> hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. <er>Canner</er>, <er>Chancre</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See <er>Crab</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See <er>Tropic</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def> A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term it now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.</def>

<note>&hand; Four kinds of cancers are recognized: <stype>(1) Epithelial cancer, <i>or</i> Epithelioma</stype>, in which there is no trabecular framework. See <er>Epithelioma</er>. (2) <stype>Scirrhous cancer, <i>or</i> Hard cancer</stype>, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) <stype>Encephaloid, Medullary, <i>or</i> Soft cancer</stype>, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) <stype>Colloid cancer</stype>, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called <i>carcinoma</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Cancer cells</col>, <cd>cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping.</cd> -- <col>Cancer root</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc.</cd> -- <col>Tropic of Cancer</col>. <cd>See <er>Tropic</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cancerate</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cer*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cancerated</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>canceratus</ets> eaten by a cancer. See <er>Cancer</er>.]</ety> <def>To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.</def>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Canceration</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can`cer*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.</def>

<h1>Cancerite</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cer*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>canc\'82reux</ets>.]</ety> <def>Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.</def> "<i>Cancerous</i> vices."

<i>G. Eliot.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Can"cer*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Can"cer*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Cancriform</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"cri*form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Cancer</ets> + <ets>-form</ets>; cf. F. <ets>cancriforme</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Like a cancer; cancerous.</def>

<h1>Cancrine</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"crine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Cancer</er>.]</ety> <def>Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.</def>

<h1>Cancrinite</h1> <Xpage=209>