Med. [mod.L. f. Gr. καρκίνος crab, cancer; see -OSIS.] ‘The production and development of cancer; also, a synonym of the disease cancer’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 282. In so-called general carcinosis, many small cancerous nodules may appear in the various organs and tissues of the body.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 131. Tuberculosis, carcinosis…, etc., not arising from an exterior cause, are not ranked among the infectious diseases.
