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tumor
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Word definitions for tumor in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tumor \Tu"mor\, n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tume['u]r. See Tumid .] (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose [syn: tumour , neoplasm ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context oncology pathology English) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin tumor "swelling, condition of being swollen, a tumor," from tumere "to swell" (see tumid ).
Usage examples of tumor.
We can do an angiogram of the heart, or the kidneys, whatever we want, to diagnose tumors or vascular disease.
It is this brickbat which makes a lump on the back of my head so big that Doc Brennan thinks it is a tumor when I go to him the next day about my stomach, and I never tell him any different.
When a young girl a tumor was removed from the front of her neck by operation, and cicatricial tumors then spread like a band encircling one-half her neck.
The injection of the tumors with a fluid which causes coagulation of the blood, and which does not completely shut off the return current of the circulation through the tumors, has proved fatal in a small percentage of cases.
POLYPI OR POLYPOID TUMORS of the uterus are of three kinds, cystic, mucous and fibrous.
Even in the largest cystic tumors where the development is immense, a small incision only, is made--simply sufficient to bring the walls of the tumor in view and admit, perhaps, two or three fingers.
On examination, we found a large multilocular cystic tumor, represented by Fig.
Palpation revealed a cystic immobile tumor, extending 2 inches above the umbilicus and apparently fixed by deep adhesions.
He rapidly developed great pain and tumor in the larynx, together with difficulty in deglutition and speech.
These tumors or dilated blood vessels of the rectum are called hemorrhoids or piles.
Ingleby describes a case of fibrous tumor of the uterus terminating fatally, but not until three weeks after delivery.
Electrical treatment will destroy the life of ovarian and fibroid tumors if applied early and after the improved methods so long used at our Institution.
On examination, we found an inter-mural fibroid tumor, represented in Figs.
In December, 1890, I went to you, after suffering five years with two fibroid tumors of the uterus.
Below each scapula there were tumors of the nature of fibroma molluscum.