Tumor
Tumor (tū"mẽr) , noun
[Latin, from tumere to swell: compare French tumeúr. See Tumid.]
1.
(Medicine) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
2.
Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Rare]
Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style.
Collocations (4)
Encysted tumor , a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance.
Fatty tumor , See under Fatty.
Innocent tumor or Benign tumor , one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized.
Malignant tumor , a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.