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Old 10-29-2021, 01:35 PM   #617
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
Could it be that krebs also means "crab"? A last name you also see occasionally in English. I know in some languages, the word for "crab" is also used as the word for "cancer". For example, in Croatian, the word for crab is "rak" and is used for the disease and the animal.
Krebs is German for both ‘crustacean’ and ‘cancer’.

The word cancer itself is Latin for ‘crab’.

It all fits.
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