Lewis & Short

phăgĕdaenĭcus, a, um, adj., = φαγεδαινικός, spreading like a cancer, can-cerous: vulnera, Plin. 24, 4, 5, § 9.

    1. 2. Transf., of persons, suffering from cancers, cancerous: phagedaenici, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 3, 47.