Term: cancer: 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
Candidate hypernym: ill health: a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain → 1
Candidate hypernym: hemophilia: congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son → 0
Candidate hypernym: phrase: an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: votary: a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: granuloma inguinale: a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region → 0
Candidate hypernym: anachronism: a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age → 0
Candidate hypernym: actinomycosis: disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses → 0
Candidate hypernym: triple jump: an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement → 0
Candidate hypernym: gastrocybe lateritia: a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses → 0
Candidate hypernym: reading assignment: the reading of a passage assigned by the teacher → 0
Candidate hypernym: microsporum: a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm → 0