cancers
- 1Plural of cancer.
Researchers are studying how certain cancers resist chemotherapy.
Lung and skin cancers are among the most common forms diagnosed worldwide.
Note
The plural does a job the singular often leaves undone. Used as a mass noun, cancer names the disease in general, while cancers counts it, picking out separate kinds or separate growths, as in breast and bowel cancers. The figurative sense counts the same way, for damaging things that spread. The same form can also mean people born under the crab's star sign, though context rarely lets the two meanings collide.
cancers is a form of cancer
cancer, noun: A disease in which the cells of a tissue multiply out of control, often rapidly. Full entry
- Forms
- cancercancers plural, plural
- Spelling
- cancer → cancers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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