Antonyms for tumortu·mor

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1. tumornoun

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

   Synonyms:
   neoplasm

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1. tumor, tumour, neoplasmnoun

   an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

   Synonyms:
   neoplasm, tumour

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1. tumornoun

   Synonyms:
   sarcoma, myoma, carcinoma, lipoma

   Associated words:
   oncology, oncotomy

How to use tumor in a sentence?

1. Henry Adams:

   The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

2. Lion Shahab:

   This paper provides evidence for a rise in specific malignant brain tumors in England, showing that incidence has more than doubled over the last two decades. What the analysis does not show is that this rise is caused by mobile phones. This is for a number of reasons, firstly, this paper does not attempt to link the rise in mobile phone use with a rise in brain tumor incidence directly.

3. Alex Walsh:

   Organoids are small pieces of a patients' tumor that are about 100 to 300 microns in diameter and they grow as kind of sphere like shapes.

4. Marsha Mudge:

   I have a tumor behind my skull. I have a tumor on my sacrum. I have one on my [cervical] spine somewhere, and on my liver and my lymph node and my left breast, it’s just hard. I just, I don’t want to die.

5. Michael Levin:

   The electrical communication amongst cells is really important for tumor suppression. The bigger picture is to understand how these voltages are passed among cells and how they control the transfer of chemical signals among cells, we need to crack this bioelectrical code. We really need to figure out how computations in tissues and decision making about pattern and cell behavior and so on are encoded in electrical signaling. That is sort of the next ten years.

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