Definition of Noncancerous

1. Adjective. (context: of a tumour) That is not cancerous; benign ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Noncancerous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Noncancerous

noncalorific
noncalorimetric
noncamouflaged
noncampaign
noncampaigning
noncamping
noncampus
noncanal
noncanalized
noncancelable
noncanceled
noncancellable
noncancellation
noncancelled
noncancer
noncancerous (current term)
noncancers
noncandidacies
noncandidacy
noncandidate
noncandidates
noncanine
noncanned
noncannibal
noncannibalistic
noncannibals
noncanonical
noncanonicality
noncanonically
noncanonized

Literary usage of Noncancerous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ftc Cigarette Test Method for Determining Tar, Nicotine & Carbon edited by Donald R. Shopland (1997)
"noncancerous Cigarette smoking is the main cause of chronic obstructive lung LUNG DISEASES disease (COLD), also called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ..."

2. Mortality Statistics of Insured Wage-earners and Their Families: Experience by Louis Israel Dublin, Edwin William Kopf, George H. Van Buren (1919)
"Under this heading are classified all deaths caused by the non- venereal, noncancerous, nontuberculous, ..."

3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The author illustrates her work in a series of 17 charts, showing various combinations of cancerous and noncancerous mice. Chart 1, for example, ..."

4. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"I have had the young of cancer mothers fed and reared from the moment of birth by noncancerous females: I have had the young of noncancerous females fed and ..."

5. Manual of the International List of Causes of Death: Based on the Second by United States Bureau of the Census, Cressy Livingston Wilbur (1911)
"Uterine tumor (noncancerous) 130. Other diseases of the uterus 131. ... noncancerous tumors and other diseases of the female genital organs (128, 129, 130, ..."

6. International Classification of Causes of Sickness and Death by Jacques Bertillon, United States Bureau of the Census (1910)
"Uterine tumor (noncancerous). »130A. Metritis. *130B. ... Uterine tumor (noncancerous). *130. Other diseases of the uterus. *131. Cysts and other tumors of ..."

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