cancer of the liver
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~ malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort
cancer of the blood
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~ malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
Cancer the Crab
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~ the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
Cosimo the Elder
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~ Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464)
crown-of-the-field
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~ European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
cock of the rock
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~ tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest
cock of the rock
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~ bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola
Comptroller of the Currency
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~ the agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
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~ island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort
Comptroller of the Currency
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~ a United States federal official who regulates the national banks
Constantine the Great
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~ Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
Congregation of the Inquisition
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~ an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants; "it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial"
coup de theatre
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~ a sensational bit of stagecraft
coup de theatre
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~ a highly successful theatrical production
Christian theology
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~ the teachings of Christian churches
corpuscular theory
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~ (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles
corpuscular theory of light
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~ (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles
cell theory
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~ (biology) the theory that cells form the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms; proposed in 1838 by Matthias Schleiden and by Theodor Schwann