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Example sentences for "cancerous"

Lexicographically close words:
cancelled; cancelling; cancellous; cancels; cancer; cancers; cancha; cancrum; candelabra; candelabras
  1. Similarly, a maiden grieving under a cancerous disease which surgical skill had frankly admitted was incurable, was restored to robust vigor by the administering of some mild herbs.

  2. The kidney may be the seat of cancerous or simple tumors, and it may be unnaturally enlarged or reduced in size, but though there may be signs of urinary disorder the true nature of the disease is seldom manifest until after death.

  3. Cancerous growths upon the external genitals and the anus usually present a rough, irregular surface from which there is a constant sloughing of decomposed tissue accompanied with a penetrating disagreeable odor.

  4. The presence of cancerous enlargement of (superficial) lymphatic glands may further assist and confirm the decision.

  5. Cancerous tumors of the skin often develop on the arms of workers in paraffin, tar, or soot, the chemical irritation of these substances being the cause.

  6. Thompson, of London, that prussic acid may be applied successfully to diseases of the skin and cancerous affections to alleviate pain.

  7. There were two small ulcers communicating with the cancerous tumour, which might have been caused by the administration of antimony or by disease.

  8. Rarely nodules which are not cancerous appear in the cervix during pregnancy, and these are to be examined microscopically.

  9. If the cancerous uterus is not removed the woman will surely die; if it is removed she has a reasonable chance of cure; but if the inviable ectopic fetus is not removed it is by no means certain that the woman will die.

  10. The constitutionality of the Iowa law is on appeal to the United States Supreme Court after a Federal judge had declared it unconstitutional.

  11. The legs and trunk atrophy, and death comes from an intercurrent disease.

  12. The cure is not a jail surgeon's scalpel, evidently.

  13. The juice or water put into foul ulcers, whether they be cancerous or fistulous, with tents rolled therein, or parts washed and injected therewith, cleanses them thoroughly from the bottom, and heals them up safely.

  14. It is singularly good in all running sores, cancerous and fistulous, drying up of the moisture, and healing them up so gently, without sharpness; it doth the like to running sores or scabs of the head or other parts.

  15. Bred by manic and hysterical nationalists, fed by demagogues, nourished by the hitherto deprived and humiliated - this cancerous mix of definition by negation wears many guises.

  16. Here was illustrated what is often obscured by historians, that a people can be compelled by misfortune into an existence so confused that it is not life but sheer nonsense, the malignant nonsense of cancerous growth.

  17. What are Putrid, Corrosive, Cavernous, Fistulous and Cancerous Ulcers?

  18. This cancerous matter is absorbed, and induces swelling of the neighbouring lymphatic glands; which also become schirrous, and afterwards cancerous.

  19. This cancerous matter does not seem to acquire its malignant or contagious quality, till the cancer becomes an open ulcer; and the matter secreted in it is thus exposed to the air.

  20. Ewart, of Bath, in which carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, was kept constantly in contact with the open cancerous ulcers of the breast; which then healed like other common ulcers.

  21. In this instance the cyst was as big as a cocoa-nut and multilocular: the ampulla of the tube is stuffed with cancer, but the ostium is patent and a ‘stream’ of cancerous material has flowed over the wall of the cyst.

  22. In such circumstances the ovarian masses are secondary to the cancerous focus in the gastro-intestinal tract.

  23. As soon as the uterine vessels are divided the vesical segments of the ureters are exposed, cleaned if necessary, and separated from the cancerous cervix.

  24. This is the cyst wall and cancerous tube represented in the preceding drawing: it shows the cancerous infiltration of the cyst wall.

  25. It is necessary for the surgeon to remember that a cancerous Fallopian tube may lead to complications with an ovarian cyst.

  26. In some instances the cancerous mass will expand the uterine cavity and lead to thinning of the walls as in Fig.

  27. When the endometrium is septic or cancerous both ovaries and tubes should be removed.

  28. If, in the course of an ovariotomy or hysterectomy, the surgeon discovers a cancerous stricture in the colon or cæcum he should resect the affected section, if it permits of this treatment; otherwise lateral anastomosis should be performed.

  29. The cœlomic ostium is open and the cancerous material has leaked out on to the cyst wall.

  30. This operation has been most successful when performed on elephantoid arms dependent on a late stage of cancerous breast.

  31. The growth of a cancerous tumor is associated with an inflammation.

  32. These erosions have a glandular arrangement, and are often mistaken for cancerous or malignant growths.

  33. Ascites may be the result not only of hydraemia, but also of cancerous peritonitis or of pressure on the portal vein by cancer.

  34. Cancerous neoplasms of the bowel, and of the duodenum especially, are apt to be associated with a distinct pulsation caused by the subjacent abdominal aorta.

  35. In doubtful cases fluids withdrawn from the stomach by the stomach-tube should be carefully examined for cancerous fragments, and the gastric fluids may be tested for free hydrochloric acid by methods already described.

  36. Often, however, the whole muscular coat beneath the tumor is replaced by the cancerous growth, and can no longer be recognized.

  37. Little clinical interest attaches to non-cancerous tumors of the stomach.

  38. Other forms of pyloric stenosis than the cancerous and the cicatricial are rare.

  39. These unused embryonic cells may lie dormant throughout life or they may be incited to cancerous growth by irritation, senile changes, etc.

  40. The existence of meteorism is much more common in the tubercular disease; indeed, in the cancerous case recited there was none of it.

  41. In obstruction of the bowel from fecal accumulation, inflamed and thickened intestine, stricture, compression and traction, and contraction of the gut from cancerous deposit, the symptoms are gradually presented and chronic in character.

  42. The dense consistence of scirrhous cancer is due to the predominance of the fibrous stroma, the cancerous alveoli being relatively small in size and few in number.

  43. That occurring in cancerous and tuberculous peritonitis has already been considered.

  44. In cases of extreme cancerous stenosis of the pylorus which are not suitable for resection Wolfler proposed forming a fistulous communication between the stomach and the small intestine (gastro-enterostomy).

  45. To this obscure village both lords and commoners resort for relief; and in cancerous cases and contractions have undoubtedly succeeded when the regular bred men of the faculty have failed.

  46. In many kinds of tumors, phosphates seem to be present in the cancerous tissue in a concentration several times that of the surrounding healthy tissue.

  47. A tiny beta-sensitive probe counter then can be moved about within the operative site to indicate to the surgeon the limits of the cancerous area.

  48. In cases where lumps, or nodules, have been discovered in the thyroid, the map is quite helpful in distinguishing between cancerous and benign nodules.

  49. The radiation destroyed the cancerous growth, and frequent examinations over 6 years since have failed to reveal any regrowth.

  50. Examples of measurements that can be made include blood volume, blood circulation rate, red blood cell turnover, glandular activity, location of cancerous tissue, and rates of formation of bone tissue or blood cells.

  51. A systematic scanning of the skull then permits location of these cancerous “hot spots”.

  52. Fragments of cancerous thyroid tissue may migrate to other parts of the body and grow there.

  53. Thuya is a specific when locally used for Sycosis, also for fungoid cancerous tumors.

  54. Conium is valuable as a palliative upon cancerous tumors.

  55. If I implant cancerous tissue in your body, you can't submit to a check for at least six months.

  56. Every nation on Earth cooperated to send cancerous persons to Mars, not only to breed the disease out of Earth, but to relieve the tremendous pressure of a growing population.

  57. The connection between increase of cancer and the permitted utilization for food purposes of animals suffering from cancerous ailments is a problem that awaits solution.

  58. The cancerous tumour, the affected parts, must indeed be cut away, and carefully condemned.

  59. It should not, as long as meat derived from cancerous animals is permitted by Government authority, to pass inspection, and to be distributed throughout the world.

  60. Is it true that among the class of people in such cities as Chicago, where cancerous animals are used for food, cancer is especially prevalent year after year?

  61. He counselled simple palliative means of cure for hard epulides of a cancerous nature.

  62. A cancer is a growth of cancerous cells in a network of connective tissue.

  63. A depraved condition of general nutrition due to some serious disease such as cancer, tuberculosis (cancerous cachexia).

  64. Whenever a woman feels a lump in her breast, particularly if she be at the cancerous age, she should consult a skilled physician at once and keep that breast under medical observation.

  65. Early diagnosis plus surgery is the only hope for a cancerous person.

  66. These simple remedies will relieve and often cure growths taken for cancers, but if it is really a cancerous growth no medicine will help and a physician should be consulted at once.

  67. Many persons have died from the return of the cancerous growth even after operation by a skilled surgeon, and this fact has led many persons to believe that operation for cancer is, therefore, unsuccessful, that it does not cure.

  68. Underwood wondered if Illia were right, if it were the harnessing of some cancerous mutation that had occurred long ago in some forgotten individual and perfected for the whole race.

  69. Among us, cancerous formation has all the appearance of a mutation gone wild, yet it seems to be one that nature insists on.

  70. I'd swear that is cancerous tissue," said Illia.

  71. Their combined use also removes blood taints, and abolishes cancerous and scrofulous humors from the system.

  72. The tendency to cancerous humors there is checked very speedily by its use.


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    Other words:
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