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Definition of Tumor
1. Noun. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
Generic synonyms: Growth
Specialized synonyms: Acanthoma, Skin Tumor, Angioma, Benign Tumor, Benign Tumour, Nonmalignant Neoplasm, Nonmalignant Tumor, Nonmalignant Tumour, Blastocytoma, Blastoma, Embryonal Carcinosarcoma, Brain Tumor, Brain Tumour, Carcinoid, Celioma, Granuloma, Adipose Tumor, Lipoma, Malignant Neoplasm, Malignant Tumor, Metastatic Tumor, Meningioma, Neurilemoma, Neurofibroma, Neuroma, Phaeochromocytoma, Pheochromocytoma, Pinealoma, Plasmacytoma, Psammoma, Sand Tumor, Teratoma
Derivative terms: Neoplastic
Definition of Tumor
1. n. A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
Definition of Tumor
1. Noun. (oncology pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumor
1. an abnormal swelling [n -S] : TUMORAL, TUMOROUS [adj]
Medical Definition of Tumor
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumor
Literary usage of Tumor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Immune Reactions against tumor Growth in Animals with Spontaneous tumor.—"While
the conditions determining the growth of tumors in experimentally inoculated ..."
2. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Recovery from a tumor which has shown malignant characteristics is rare. ...
Evidence of local disappearance of tumor is more frequently met with; ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"2 Left epigastric tumor 1 Pyloric ulcer 1 Abdominal tumor (sarcoma).... 1 Cystic
tumor of abdomen 1 Cyst of the pancreas (infected?). 1 tumor of upper right ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"The patient from whom the tumor was removed was a woman between the age of forty
... She had carried the tumor for a number of years and had gotten along ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"The removal of such a tumor is most easily effected by dividing it, ... or tarsal
tumor. This tumor is situated in the substance of the tarsal cartilage, ..."
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