Assertion: mucous membrane | /r/HasProperty | encroached by a mass of cancer
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text: The mucous membrane may be in various conditions: of these some have been described already, and others will be mentioned in the account of the particular organs in which they occur; but there is one character which may be spoken of in this place, which it shares with other structures that become involved by contiguity in cancerous diseases, and more particularly with the skin, namely, that when encroached upon by a mass of cancer, mucous membrane becomes adherent to it, united with it, and at length entirely lost in it.