Synonyms for tumour
tu·mour

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1. tumor, tumour, neoplasmnoun

   an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

   Synonyms:
   neoplasm, tumor

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1. • Growth

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1. List of paraphrases for "tumour":

   tumor, tumours, oncology, neoplasms, neoplasm

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1. Tom Parker:

   [ The doctors ] pulled the curtain around my bed and said,' It's a brain tumour,' all I could think was,' F --- ing hell !' I was in shock.

2. Frank Lyko:

   What we see in slow motion with the marbled crayfish evolution is something that happens during the very early stages of tumour formation, in many ways, the invasive expansion of [the marbled crayfish] is analogous to a cancerous lineage spreading asexually at the expense of its host.

3. Keyoumars Ashkan:

   This was the first time I've had a patient play an instrument, we managed to remove over 90 percent of the tumour, including all the areas suspicious of aggressive activity, while retaining full function in her left hand.

4. Kishor Tiwari:

   Loan waivers are not the solution; it is like a simple dressing for a cancer tumour. You need to excise the tumour and address the cause of the disease.

5. Mike Stratton:

   As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.