癌
cancer, cancerous evil
Readings
On'yomi
- ガン
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
癌 centers on a malignant, destructive growth: cancer in the medical sense, and by extension a cancerous evil that spreads harm.
Most common words using 癌
20 of 59- 癌がんN2
cancer
- スキルス癌スキルスがん
scirrhous carcinoma
- タール癌タールがん
tar cancer; tar carcinoma
- ヒト癌細胞ヒトがんさいぼう
human cancer cell
- 上咽頭癌じょういんとうがん
epipharyngeal cancer; epiglottal carcinoma
- 下咽頭癌かいんとうがん
hypopharyngeal cancer; cancer of the hypopharynx
- 中咽頭癌ちゅういんとうがん
oropharyngeal cancer; cancer of the oropharynx
- 人工癌じんこうがん
artificially induced cancer
- 制癌せいがん
antitumor; anticancer; anticarcinogenic; carcinostatic
- 制癌剤せいがんざい
anti-cancer drug; cancer-inhibiting drug
- 前癌状態ぜんがんじょうたい
precancerous state; premalignant state
- 口腔癌こうこうがん
oral cancer
- 咽頭癌いんとうがん
pharyngeal cancer; cancer of the pharynx
- 固形癌こけいがん
solid cancer; solid tumor; solid tumour
- 基底細胞癌きていさいぼうがん
basal cell carcinoma; BCC
- 子宮体癌しきゅうたいがん
cancer of the uterine body
- 子宮内膜癌しきゅうないまくがん
endometrial cancer
- 小児癌しょうにがん
childhood cancer; pediatric cancer
- 扁平上皮癌へんぺいじょうひがん
squamous cell carcinoma; SCC
- 担癌たんがん
tumour-bearing; tumor-bearing; cancer-bearing
Study
Etymology
癌 combines 疒 (sickness) with 嵒, which likely contributes the sound ガン and may suggest a hard, rock-like mass (from 山 and 品/石 associations). The exact historical development is uncertain.
Meaning mnemonic
The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around 嵒, which looks like piled rocks or a craggy mountain. Picture a hard, rocky tumor growing inside the body: that is cancer.
Reading mnemonic
For ガン, imagine a gun-shaped tumor that spreads like a bullet: gun -> ガン, and the cancerous evil shoots through the body.