cancer (kan's er). i

Popular term for malignant tumors, infiltrations, and ulcers: (carcinoma) restricted by Virchow to those that are wholly or partly of epithelial origin. 2. All tumors in which there is infiltration and apparently independent growth of epithelial or gland cells, whether slightly or markedly atypical, into the surrounding ti ue, c. bodies. Degenerative bodies staining intensely with fuchsin, either intracellular or intercellular, about the average size of a red blood corpuscle, which are found in cancers and in inflammatory ti ues. They are not now regarded as parasitic, but they may be due to hyaline degeneration of certain cellular elements. See Ru ell's fuchsin bodies, under body. c. parasites. Various stages of the c. bodies not now regarded as an etiological factor in c. c. root. A popular name for various plants that are applied to cancerous ulcers. chimney-sweep's c. A form of epithelioma of the scrotum, so-called from its having been generally observed in the chimney-sweeps of London, melanotic c. Black cancer; a malignant growth in which there is a deposit of melanin. scirrhous c. Hard c, scirrhus; a form of carcinoma in which induration is a prominent feature, forming a tumor of a hard feel which creaks under the knife on section and presents a bluish white or grayish white appearance. Its characteristics are those of texture, not of e ential structure, being due to an abundance of fibrous ti ue in the stroma. [Lat, cancer, crab.] can'cerin. A ptomain which has been found in the urine in cases of cancer. cancroid (kan'kroyd). Resembling cancer; as a noun, epithelioma. cancroin (kan'kro-in). A toxin found by Adamkiewicz in carcinomatous ti ues; used subcutaneously by him for the cure of cancer.