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tumor

noun
/tjuː.mə/UK/tuː.məɹ/US

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

  1. derived from *tewh₂-✻ — “to swell”
  2. derived from *tumēō✻
  3. derived from tumor — “swelling”
  4. derived from tumour
  5. inherited from tumour

Definitions

  1. An abnormal growth

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

    • a benign tumor
    • a malignant tumor
    • brain tumor

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tumor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA