Category: C

Metastatic spreading of cancer, usually from an internal organ to the skin, to which the spreading tumor gives a red, inflammatory appearance.  

Any slowly growing squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, typically presenting as a gradually enlarging warty tumor.  

The American Cancer Society estimated there would be 37,700 new cases of the disease in the U.S. in 2008, with 34,300 deaths caused by the illness that year. Although the causes of pancreatic cancer are unknown, it has been found in more men than women, more blacks than whites, more smokers than nonsmokers, and more…

Destruction of carcinoma cells.  

Any chemical substance capable of causing cancer.  

A dead body; the term is usually used to describe nonhuman bodies such as the remains of a steer or sheep.  

The appearance of several carbuncles in succession or simultaneously.  

The characteristic group ( — COOH) of organic carboxylic acids such as acetic acid (CH3COOH) and all of the amino acids.  

The percentage of total hemoglobin in a blood sample that is covalently bonded to carbon monoxide.  

The presence of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood.