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noun
An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: medicine, oncology, pathology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tumour, neoplasm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: growth
Narrower terms: acanthoma, skin tumor, angioma, benign tumor, benign tumour, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm, blastoma, blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma, brain tumor, brain tumour, carcinoid, celioma, granuloma, lipoma, adipose tumor, malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor, meningioma, neurofibroma, neurilemoma, neuroma, pheochromocytoma, phaeochromocytoma, pinealoma, plasmacytoma, psammoma, sand tumor, teratoma
History
From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh2- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.
Across languages
87 source translations are retained for this English entry.
