2. Adverb. With regard to cancer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cancerously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancerously
Literary usage of Cancerously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Urinary Organs: A Compendium of Their Diagnosis, Pathology by William Wallace Morland (1858)
"Disordered vesical sensations, in an individual cancerously diseased in other
organs, should induce suspicion of like degeneration in the bladder. ..."
2. Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy by American Institute of Homeopathy Session (1875)
"Very rarely one gland alone is cancerously diseased; far oftener a whole gland
group, and in some cases the cancerous degeneration is diffused over the ..."
3. Wharton and Stillé's Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1882)
"... becomes a passion, growing on the mind on which it feeds, cancerously absorbing
into itself the mind's true life, and sending forth over the system its ..."
4. The Soul of America: A Constructive Essay in the Sociology of Religion by Stanton Coit (1914)
"It consists of a plurality of persons — of living men and women who are bad and
plot mischief, who feed cancerously upon the organism of society. ..."
5. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Charles Handfield Jones, Edward Henry Sieveking (1854)
"The lymphatic glands seem to have been larged or cancerously diseased in eleven
out of nineteen cases. Tí affection has been more often observed in males ..."
6. An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green, Hubert Montague Murray (1895)
"It is no longer supposed that all the tissues of a cancerous patient »re tending
to grow cancerously or throwing something into the blood which " will out" ..."
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