Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, a cone-shaped projection of the upper part of the tragic mask which was supposed to give it size and impressiveness.
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But if one looks back even further behind the Greek to the ancestral Indo-European language, the etymology of the word onkos changes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But if one looks back even further behind the Greek to the ancestral Indo-European language, the etymology of the word onkos changes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But if one looks back even further behind the Greek to the ancestral Indo-European language, the etymology of the word onkos changes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
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And that's another Hippocratic term onkos, is a Greek word, and it simply means masses.
missanthropist commented on the word onkos
Greek Tumor, swelling.
July 9, 2008