cancerous

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adj malignant

adjective. injurious, devastating

adjective. diseased

1560s, from cancer + -ous.

Trees are also very rare on that spot, and these poor, meagre, and cancerous.

I think we care too highly for the cancerous and the consumptive.

But what has this girl to do with your 'realm of the dead' or my study of cancerous tissue?

She had acquired a cancerous technique; and she could not get rid of it.

It is used as a sprinkle for open cancers and cancerous sores.

It is a cancerous growth that human conventions have created and maintained.

The prognosis of cancerous dilatation is as unfavorable as possible.

It is not cancerous, although bearing some resemblance to epithelioma.

It is a cancerous disease, but it cannot be cut out like a cancer.

The first is used as a dressing to cancerous sores; the second is applied on lint as a caustic in like cases.