His hometown is located in the north to the tropic of cancer. 他的家乡在北回归线的北面。
cancer
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any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
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a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini
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the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
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type genus of the family Cancridae
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Sign \Sign\, n. [F. signe, L. signum; cf. AS. segen, segn, a sign, standard, banner, also fr. L. signum. Cf. {Ensign}, {Resign}, {Seal} a stamp, {Signal}, {Signet}.] That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically: (a) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen. (b) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. --Rom. xv. 19.
It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. --Ex. iv. 8. (c) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. --Num. xxvi. 10. (d) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. --Brerewood.
Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. --Spenser. (e) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas. (f) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
They made signs to his father, how he would have him called. --Luke i. 62. (g) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
Note: Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural signs, which serve for communicating ideas, and methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on the fingers. (h) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. --Milton. (i) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. --Macaulay. (j) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
Note: The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named, respectively, {Aries} ([Aries]), {Taurus} ([Taurus]), {Gemini} (II), {Cancer} ([Cancer]), {Leo} ([Leo]), {Virgo} ([Virgo]), {Libra} ([Libra]), {Scorpio} ([Scorpio]), {Sagittarius} ([Sagittarius]), {Capricornus ([Capricorn]), {Aquarius} ([Aquarius]), {Pisces} ([Pisces]). These names were originally the names of the constellations occupying severally the divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become separated about 30 degrees from these constellations, and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in advance, or to the east of the one which bears its name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus, etc. (k) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division /, and the like. (l) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
Note: The terms symptom and and sign are often used synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived only by the patient himself. The term sign is often further restricted to the purely local evidences of disease afforded by direct examination of the organs involved, as distinguished from those evidence of general disturbance afforded by observation of the temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often called physical sign. (m) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. (n) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. --Bk. of Common Prayer.
Note: See the Table of {Arbitrary Signs}, p. 1924.
{Sign manual}. (a) (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be, to complete their validity. (b) The signature of one's name in one's own handwriting. --Craig. Tomlins. Wharton.
Cancer \Can"cer\, n. [L. cancer, cancri, crab, ulcer, a sign of the zodiac; akin to Gr. karki`nos, Skr. karka[.t]a crab, and prob. Skr. karkara hard, the crab being named from its hard shell. Cf. {Canner}, {Chancre}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See {Crab}.
2. (Astron.) (a) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See {Tropic}. (b) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
3. (Med.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.
Note: Four kinds of cancers are recognized: (1) {Epithelial cancer, or Epithelioma}, in which there is no trabecular framework. See {Epithelioma}. (2) {Scirrhous cancer, or Hard cancer}, in which the framework predominates, and the tumor is of hard consistence and slow growth. (3) {Encephaloid cancer}, {Medullary cancer}, or {Soft cancer}, in which the cellular element predominates, and the tumor is soft, grows rapidy, and often ulcerates. (4) {Colloid cancer}, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three varieties are also called {carcinoma}.
{Cancer cells}, cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping.
{Cancer root} (Bot.), the name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc.
{Tropic of Cancer}. See {Tropic}.
After reports earlier this year linked the apple pesticide Alar to cancer risks in children, supermarkets had to act "to head off a flap," he says.
Davis died of cancer at George Washington University Hospital.
Stanley Chesley, the lead lawyer for the residents, has said lawyers expect the monitoring will last 30 to 40 years and track such things as lung cancer and kidney diseases usually associated with uranium pollution.
What value does it have for Mr. Harwood not to have access to IL-2? Many very dedicated cancer researchers have suggested that the process of drug approval is much too slow and much too expensive to be truly responsive to the needs of cancer patients.
What value does it have for Mr. Harwood not to have access to IL-2? Many very dedicated cancer researchers have suggested that the process of drug approval is much too slow and much too expensive to be truly responsive to the needs of cancer patients.
"What happens (with emphysema and bronchitis) is as it is with lung cancer _ it's what you did a long time ago that affects your current disease status," said Dr. Robert Hahn, a CDC specialist in lung diseases.
Separately, Chiron said it formed a new company with a group of venture capital investors to concentrate on discovering and developing cancer therepeutics using biotechnology.
But he became ill with a form of blood cancer while living in Rome this summer and was admitted to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston three weeks ago.
U.S. policy in El Salvador has been aimed at shoring up a centrist government represented by the Christian Democrats and President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of liver cancer and leaves office June 1.
Shiseido Co., Japan's leading cosmetics maker, says its Australian and Singapore subsidiaries are recalling six skin care products containing an acid that one Australian researcher linked to skin cancer.
"This is a small but crucial step to treating a whole array of genetic diseases," said Dr. R. Michael Blaese, another cancer institute researcher on the project.
The researchers said such symptoms of the infection as abdominal pain, fever and nausea are often confused with those of acute appendicitis, chronic bowel inflammation, gastric ulcer or gastrointestinal cancer.
Mr. Murray assumes the perspective of a healer in the South Bronx, and tries to imagine what cancer could have invaded the community and forced individuals to act so unnaturally.
The racial difference in cervical cancer rates is "substantial and persistent," the Atlanta-based CDC said.
His trial, however, was postponed indefinitely after he was diagnosed as having brain cancer.
Dr. Peter Rosier, who said he wanted to end his wife's suffering from cancer, was found innocent of first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy.
There's talk now that the FDA is pondering making implants available only to women who have lost breasts to cancer.
Someday they may replace radioactive tracers now used to study and treat diseases like cancer and AIDS, Harvey said.
Emperor Hirohito died of cancer Jan. 7 at age 87. His state funeral, held Feb. 24 in Tokyo's Shinjuku Gyoen Imperial Gardens, was attended by more than 10,000 people, including envoys from 164 foreign countries.
The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that every 1 percent decline in ozone overhead means an eventual increase in skin cancer of 5 percent to 6 percent.
Mrs. Harper, who reportedly had cancer, flew to Michigan on Aug. 18. Police said she killed herself by taking pills and putting a plastic bag over her head while her husband and stepdaughter stood by.
Reagan left Bethesda Naval Hospital after a four-day stay for prostate surgery and a cancer checkup.
He is recuperating from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment for lung cancer.
At this institution we make a distinction between prophylactic mastectomy and mastectomy for risk reduction. Prophylactic mastectomy is a simple mastectomy that removes essentially all breast tissue and theoretically reduces the risk of cancer to zero.
Recommendations are expected within 45 days. Saline-filled implants will not be affected by the moratorium. According to the FDA, about 20 per cent of the 1m women in the US with implants have them for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery.
Al Meyerhoff, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the suit is aimed at forcing the EPA to be more aggressive in prohibiting the use of pesticides on food and to ban them altogether if they are found to cause cancer.
He suggested that further research on the plant's rate of pancreatic cancer and DDT examine the connection to diet.
The likelihood of cancer increases with old age, and as people live longer the incidence of cancer increases.
The likelihood of cancer increases with old age, and as people live longer the incidence of cancer increases.
That suggests that the average nuclear-industry worker runs a risk of fatal cancer about 15% higher than most other people.