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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tumor, tumour, neoplasmnoun

    an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

Wiktionary

  1. tumornoun

    An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

  2. Etymology: From tumour, from tumor, from tumeo. English usage attested since the 16th century.

Wikipedia

  1. tumor

    A neoplasm () is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue. The process that occurs to form or produce a neoplasm is called neoplasia. The growth of a neoplasm is uncoordinated with that of the normal surrounding tissue, and persists in growing abnormally, even if the original trigger is removed. This abnormal growth usually forms a mass, when it may be called a tumor.ICD-10 classifies neoplasms into four main groups: benign neoplasms, in situ neoplasms, malignant neoplasms, and neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behavior. Malignant neoplasms are also simply known as cancers and are the focus of oncology. Prior to the abnormal growth of tissue, as neoplasia, cells often undergo an abnormal pattern of growth, such as metaplasia or dysplasia. However, metaplasia or dysplasia does not always progress to neoplasia and can occur in other conditions as well. The word is from Ancient Greek νέος- neo 'new' and πλάσμα plasma 'formation, creation'.

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  1. tumor

    A tumor, also known as a neoplasm, is an abnormal growth of cells that can be benign (non-cancerous), pre-malignant (pre-cancerous), or malignant (cancerous). Tumors are formed when the body's cells begin to divide and proliferate uncontrollably, forming a lump or mass of tissue. This can occur in any part of the body.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tumornoun

    a morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm

  2. Tumornoun

    affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity

Freebase

  1. Tumor

    A tumor or tumour is commonly used as a synonym for a neoplasm that appears enlarged in size. Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. While cancer is by definition malignant, a tumor can be benign, pre-malignant, or malignant, or can represent a lesion without any cancerous potential whatsoever. The terms "mass" and "nodule" are often used synonymously with "tumor". Generally speaking, however, the term "tumor" is used generically, without reference to the physical size of the lesion. More specifically, the term "mass" is often used when the lesion has a maximal diameter of at least 20 millimeters in greatest direction, while the term "nodule" is usually used when the size of the lesion is less than 20 mm in its greatest dimension.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tumor in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tumor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tumor in a Sentence

  1. Joe DeSimone:

    Surgery is the only way to cure this cancer, yet many patients cannot undergo surgery because the tumor is too advanced and may involve critical blood vessels, the device could be implanted to initially shrink the tumors so that patients who couldn't get surgery would now be able to, and patients undergoing surgery may have better tumor clearance.

  2. Marsha Mudge:

    I have a tumor behind my skull. I have a tumor on my sacrum. I have one on my [cervical] spine somewhere, and on my liver and my lymph node and my left breast, it’s just hard. I just, I don’t want to die.

  3. Joe DeSimone:

    The device is able to deliver a much greater amount of drug into the tumor while reducing exposure of the drug to the rest of the body and therefore limiting the whole body toxicities and side effects, it may also be used in conjunction with complementary drugs given to the entire body so that we can better target the tumor and any floating cancer cells in the body at the same time.

  4. Henry Adams:

    The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

  5. Ingolf Tuerk:

    If he didn't have the encounter with the shark, and given the fact that he's a healthy 39-year-old man, the tumor probably would have grown over the next five, six years. The surgery could have been significantly less successful had the tumor not been located early.

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