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pseudotumour

pseudotumour is the alternative spelling of pseudotumor.

Meaning of pseudotumor

Noun

pseudotumor (plural pseudotumors)

  1. An enlarged portion of tissue that resembles a tumor
    • The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less...1936 June, F Ronchese, “Dermatorrhexis with dermatochalasis and arthrochalasis (the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)”, in American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 51, number 6, page 1403
    Synonyms:
    phantom tumour

Forms of pseudotumour

pluralpseudotumours

Origin of pseudotumour

From pseudo- + tumour.

Questions about pseudotumour

What is pseudotumour the alternative spelling of?
Pseudotumour is the alternative spelling of pseudotumor.

Words near pseudotumour in the dictionary

  1. pseudotubular
  2. pseudotumor
  3. pseudotumor cerebri
  4. pseudotumoral
  5. pseudotumors
  6. pseudotumour
  7. pseudotumours
  8. pseudoturbinal
  9. pseudoturbinals
  10. pseudotympanum
  11. pseudotympanums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudotumour (page history and authors); pseudotumor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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