Tumor
['tju:mə(r)] or ['tjʊmɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
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Definition
(n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
(n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Swelling, tumefaction.
Edited by Davy
Examples
- The cautery consists of a loop of platinum wire carried by a suitable non-conducting handle, with means for constricting the white hot loop of wire about the tumor or object to be excised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- After questioning and examining her, Lydgate said to the house-surgeon in an undertone, It's not tumor: it's cramp. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Cancers and tumors of certain kinds and a number of skin diseases are said to be made to disappear by their use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the main it is a collection of prescriptions for the eyes, ears, stomach, to reduce tumors, effect purgation, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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