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Tumor   /tˈumər/   Listen
Tumor

noun
1.
An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.  Synonyms: neoplasm, tumour.



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"Tumor" Quotes from Famous Books



... years' illness, two years of which were spent at home, one year in a trip around the world in a sailing vessel, and most of the remainder on a farm near Hartford. The doctors finally decided that a tumor at the base of the brain had caused ...
— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers

... President wrote to a correspondent, "I have the pleasure to inform you, that my health is restored, but a feebleness still hangs upon me, and I am much incommoded by the incision, which was made in a very large and painful tumor on the protuberance of my thigh. This prevents me from walking or sitting. However, the physicians assure me that it has had a happy effect in removing my fever, and will tend very much to the establishment of my general health; it is in a fair way of healing, and ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford

... Captain Crowell, sent to Paris for Dr. Brown-Sequard, then the most distinguished specialist of his day, and Dr. Brown-Sequard, when he arrived and examined his patient, discovered that she had a tumor on the brain. She had had a great shock in her life—the tragic death of her husband at sea during their wedding tour around the world—and it was believed that her disease dated from that time. ...
— The Story of a Pioneer - With The Collaboration Of Elizabeth Jordan • Anna Howard Shaw



Words linked to "Tumor" :   phaeochromocytoma, neurilemoma, nonmalignant tumour, brain tumour, neoplasm, embryonal carcinosarcoma, nonmalignant neoplasm, plasmacytoma, pinealoma, benign tumour, carcinoid, teratoma, tumour, malignant neoplasm, angioma, neuroma, blastoma, lipoma, papillary tumor, psammoma, neurofibroma, blastocytoma, acanthoma, celioma, meningioma, growth, tumor virus, granuloma, pheochromocytoma



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