From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1:12 hours, implying an average day-over-day increase of 2.4 minutes. The shortest day of the month is April 1 with 12:41 hours of daylight; the longest day is April 30 with 13:53 hours of daylight.
The term âeponymâ originates from the Greek word âeponymous,â which means ânamed after.â An eponym was a simple way to describe tumors and tumorlike lesions that initially were not well understood.ponyms were used as a simple way to describe different tumors and tumorlike lesions at the beginning of our understanding of those entities and to acknowledge contributions of pioneers who helped to improve our understanding.
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD. The term oncology literally means a branch of science that deals with tumours and cancers. The word âoncoâ means bulk, mass, or tumor while â-logyâ means study. Each of the cells of the body have a tightly regulated system that controls their growth, maturity, reproduction and eventual death. Cancer begins when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. There are many kinds of cancer, but they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells.