Synonyms for tumor
tu·mor

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1. tumornoun

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

   Synonyms:
   neoplasm

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. tumor, tumour, neoplasmnoun

   an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

   Synonyms:
   neoplasm, tumour

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1. • Growth

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tumornoun

   Synonyms:
   swelling, tumefaction

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1. tumornoun

   Synonyms:
   sarcoma, myoma, carcinoma, lipoma

   Associated words:
   oncology, oncotomy

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1. List of paraphrases for "tumor":

   tumour, tumours, oncology, neoplasm, tumors, cancer

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1. Joe DeSimone:

   Surgery is the only way to cure this cancer, yet many patients cannot undergo surgery because the tumor is too advanced and may involve critical blood vessels, the device could be implanted to initially shrink the tumors so that patients who couldn't get surgery would now be able to, and patients undergoing surgery may have better tumor clearance.

2. Linus Chuang:

   There were a lot of issues related to this very large tumor in the abdomen. She can't eat, she can't walk, and there are problems related to potential complications with this large mass compressing the venous system, she was at very high risk of developing blood clots because of compression of the blood flow.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Ingolf Tuerk:

   If he didn't have the encounter with the shark, and given the fact that he's a healthy 39-year-old man, the tumor probably would have grown over the next five, six years. The surgery could have been significantly less successful had the tumor not been located early.