- tumor as a noun:
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tumor
noun
1 tumor
An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion†; obesity etc. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation†. dilatability, expansibility. germination, growth, upgrowth†; accretion etc. 35; budding, gemmation†. overgrowth, overdistension†; hypertrophy, tympany†. bulb etc. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size. [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant. ... show more
Roget 250: convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity†, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.]. thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.]. swell. intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch. boss, embossment, hub, hubble; [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow, process, apophysis†, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity†, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf etc. (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon†; molar; belly, corporation†, pot belly, gut [Coll.]; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange. [convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]; wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle†, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus†, fungus, fungosity†, exostosis†, bleb, blister, blain†; boil etc. (disease) 655; airbubble†, blob, papule, verruca. [convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob [Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla†. [prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz [Coll.]. peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag. cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster. relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo†, mezzorilevo†, altorivievo; low relief, bas relief [Fr.], high relief. hill etc. (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland†; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze†, ness. ... show more
Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity†; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature†. visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit. delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy†; cachexia [Med.], atrophy, marasmus†; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay etc. (deterioration) 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity†, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox. sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen etc. (swelling) 250; carbuncle, gathering, imposthume†, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus†, sphacelation†, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. fever, temperature, calenture†; inflammation. ague, angina pectoris [Lat.], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera†, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia†, blennorrhoea†; blood poisoning, bloodstroke†, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever†, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy [Med.]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele [Med.], canker rash, cardialgia [Med.], carditis [Med.], endocarditis [Med.]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche†, dartre [Fr.]; enanthem†, enanthema†; erysipelas; exanthem†, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps†, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis†, pneumonia, psora†, pyaemia†, pyrosis [Med.], quinsy, rachitis†, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma†, syntexis†, tetanus, tetter†, tonsillitis, tonsilitis†, tracheocele [Med.], trachoma, trismus [Med.], varicella [Med.], varicosis [Med.], variola [Med.], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. fatal disease etc. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system. [Disease of mind] idiocy etc. 499; insanity etc. 503. martyr to disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind;" valetudinary†, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber. [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology†. [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter†; cattle plague, glanders†, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria. [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus. [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus. [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human immunodefficiency virus, HIV. ... show more
is a specific kind of: growth.
is a broader term that covers: acanthoma, skin tumor | angioma | benign tumor, benign tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour | blastocytoma, blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma | brain tumor, brain tumour | carcinoid | celioma | granuloma | adipose tumor, lipoma | malignant neoplasm, malignant tumor, metastatic tumor | meningioma | neurilemoma, neurofibroma | neuroma | phaeochromocytoma, pheochromocytoma | pinealoma | plasmacytoma | psammoma, sand tumor | teratoma ... show more.
derivation: neoplastic.
Dutch: blastoom, gezwel, neoplasma, tumor, vleeswoekering
Polish: tumor, guz
Moby thesaurus: abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, benign tumor, bleeding, blennorhea, boil, bump, bunion, cachexia, cachexy, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, corn, coughing, cyanosis, cyst, diarrhea, dilatation, dilation, distension, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, excrescence, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump, malignancy, malignant growth, marasmus, melanoma, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pain, paralysis, pimple, pock, protuberance, proud flesh, pruritus, pustule, rash, rheum, rising, sarcoma, sclerosis, sebaceous cyst, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, swell, swelling, swollenness, tabes, tachycardia, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, upset stomach, verruca, vertigo, vomiting, wart, wasting, wen ... show more.
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