English Dictionary

cancer

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkænsə/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

(medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation. / (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

日本語の意味

医学用語としての意味：細胞が制御不能に急速増殖する病気、すなわち「癌」。 / 比喩的な意味：破壊的な影響が広がるもの、すなわち何か有害なものが広範囲に広がる様子。

She was diagnosed with early-stage cancer after noticing a persistent lump.

彼女はしこりが続くことに気づき、検査の結果、早期のがんと診断されました。

意味（1）

(medicine, oncology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

Sierra Leone's post-dictator problems are almost absurd in their breadth. It once exported rice; now it can't feed itself. The life span of the average citizen is 39, the shortest in Africa. Unemployment stands at 87 percent and tuberculosis is spreading out of control. Corruption, brazen and ubiquitous, is a cancer on the economy.

cancers （ plural ）