why is cancer called cancer? it doesnt seem to have much in common with a crab.?

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edit: i know it comes from the meaning crab i want to know why, so dont just copy and paste something from dictionary.com

how do i select an answer as a "best answer"? anyways thank you to everyone who answered but especially copy & paste

Answer 1

There are loads of medical books explaining the etymology of "cancer". "Cancer" or the Greek word "Canker" means "crab" in Latin, a sea creature which has no connection to the disease beyond the imagination. Although no one is certain who coined this term, most sources point on Claudius Galen of Pergamum, a Greek Physician worked in Rome in 2nd Century AD. He thought that the swollen veins surrounding a tumour resembled a crab's limbs. Anyway, the term comes from the descriptive pathology of a usual malignant tumour, which spreads its claws in all directions, much like a crab, and has a tenacious tendency to hold on to the parent tissue even when surgically removed a part of a structure or an organ, again like the creature.

The Hippocratic writers (fifth to fourth century B.C.) used the words carcinos and carcinoma in practically synonymous sense, and both meant crab. They applied these words indiscriminately to intractable ulcerations. The Hippocratic concept of carcinos and carcinoma were changed by Aurelius Cornelius Celsus (first century A.D.) a Roman Physician changing carcinos into Latin cancer (meaning crab) and transliterating the latter into the Latin as carcinoma and gave different interpretations. Cancer meant generally a deeply penetrating type of ulceration.

Dr. Adrian Reuben described cancer as swelling or sore, about which the veins appear of a black or swart (dark) colour, spread in the manner of Crayfish claws, whereupon it took the name in Latin, like as in Greek Carcinoma.-

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Why Is Cancer Called Cancer

Answer 3

Cancer Etymology

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Cancer (the crab) in the zodiac is the first sign after summer solstice, the longest day of the year, the height of the sun s power. Cancer is the sign in which the decline begins. The days get continually shorter until they enter au tomb (autumn) and death (winter solstice, the shortest day). Cancer (the disease) appears when the body begins to decline.

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i asked my mom and she said she is a King Crab i said you r more like a Soft shell crab And she replied "you dare question me?" i tell her "now you more like it" And now i'm standing outside my house, thx to your question :( i would nvr let myself seperated from my computer, only way is to trick me... And i can't believe my mom is such trickster crab! After that conversation, She told me to get something outside and when i do, she locked the door behind me! My expression was like "Whhaa..??" That prove it, my Mom is a soft shell crab! i always have my smartphone with me :p

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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L: lit., crab; L s. cancr-, dissimilated from *carcr-, with *carc-r- akin to Gk karkínos, Skt karkata crab; see canker]
anything else?

Answer 8

As far as I know cancer is when ubnormal cells killing healthy cells