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carcinoma

carcinoma · n

a cancerous ulcer

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Where it lives

De Medicina 9 · 0.88/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 29 · 0.73/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k

What it meant

carcĭnōma — Lewis & Short

carcĭnōma, ătis, n., = karki/nwma,

I a cancerous ulcer (pure Lat. cancer), a cancer, Cato, R. R. 157, 4; Cels. 5, 28, 2; Plin. 22, 13, 15, § 32 al.—As a term of reproach applied by Augustus to Julia and her son Agrippa, on account of their incorrigible wickedness, Suet. Aug. 65.

In the wild

carcinoma Celsus, De Medicina 5.28.p2
carcinoma Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.2.p2
carcinomati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.4.p4
carcinomata Suetonius, Divus Augustus 65.4
carcinomatis Celsus, De Medicina 7.7.p7
carcinomata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.14.p1

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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