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

Matched Categories

1. • Growth

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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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How to use tumor in a sentence?

1. Peter Swenson:

   This money that I'm raising, I'm hoping that the research can be done to actually find a treatment for these mutations, this mutation is the same mutation in the majority of DIPG tumors. That type of tumor has a 0 % survival rate.

2. Patrick Soon-Shiong:

   Everybody is focusing on one little piece of the puzzle, but the tumor is too smart. It has too many fail safes. We need to attack the entire tumor system.

3. Samuel Goldlust:

   It uses alternating electric fields with rays that are placed directly on the scalp which works to kill tumor cells in a different way than surgery obviously, and in a different way than chemotherapy or radiation.

4. Viola Davis:

   [ Actors ] are in the business of creating human beings, of finding out what makes you tick -- the psychological pathology, pathology is the study of tumors. Acting is a study of' What is your tumor ? What is that nucleus ?' And in order to do that, I felt like if I took that wig off... what it's going to force the writer to do is write the woman.

5. Joseph McCain:

   Neissa started to have a rapid acceleration of the growth of the tumor. We were all quite concerned about that.