tumour
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tumour /ˈtjuːmə(r)/ (US tumor)
▶noun a swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
– derivatives
tumorous adjective.
tumorous adjective.
– origin ME: from L. tumor, from tumere ‘to swell’.
'tumour' also found in these Oxford entries:
adenocarcinoma
- adenoma
- adjuvant
- benign
- cancer
- canker
- carcinoid
- -cele
- choriocarcinoma
- crown gall
- Cushing's disease
- fibroid
- fibroma
- ganglion
- glioma
- growth
- lipoma
- lumpectomy
- malignancy
- malignant
- melanoma
- myeloma
- myxoma
- neurofibroma
- oligodendroglioma
- oncogene
- oncogenic
- photodynamic
- rodent ulcer
- Rous sarcoma
- sac
- sarcoma
- stroma
- struma
- tawdry
- teratoma
- tumorigenesis
- wen
- Wilms' tumour
