tumor
/tjuː.mə/US/tuː.məɹ/
tumor noun: an abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
Noun
tumor (plural tumors)
- An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
- a benign tumor
- a malignant tumor
tumor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
tumor in Hindi
- oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth
- फुलाव phulāv, नववर्धन navvardhan, ट्यूमर ṭyūmar
tumor in Tamil
- oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth
- கட்டி kaṭṭi
tumor in Bengali
- আব, ব্রণ, অর্বুদ, স্ফীতি, গেঁজ, অনভিপ্রেত অঙ্গবৃদ্ধি
tumor in Malayalam
- tumor, swelling
- തിണറ് tiṇaṟŭ
More languagesFewer languages
- tumor in Kannada
- ಗಂತಿ ganti, ಗಡ್ಡೆ gaḍḍe
- tumor in Gujarati
- ગાંઠ gā̃ṭh
- tumor in Arabic
- وَرَم waram
- tumor in Malay
- ketumbuhan, tumor
- tumor in Persian
- تومور tumor
- tumor in Thai
- เนื้องอก nʉ́ʉa-ngɔ̂ɔk
- tumor in Vietnamese
- u
- tumor in Myanmar
- အကျိတ် a.kyit
Examples of tumor in a sentence
- Such tumors have an almondlike shape and hardness.
- High-grade tumors often infiltrate surrounding structures.
- The regression of a liver tumor after irradiation of bone that the tumor metastasized to is an example of the abscopal effect.
Synonyms of tumor
Forms of tumor
| plural | tumors |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tumour |
Origin of tumor
From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tumēō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.
Words formed from tumor
- aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
- antitumor
- devil facial tumor disease
- hypertumor
- intratumor
- microtumor
- neurotumor
- nontumor
- peritumor
- posttumor
- pretumor
- protumor
- pseudotumor
- tumorectomy
- tumored
- tumorgenic
- tumoricide
- tumorigenesis
- tumorigenic
- tumoristatic
- tumoritropic
- tumorless
- tumorlike
- tumor necrosis factor
- tumorogenesis
- tumorogenic
- tumoroid
- tumorolytic
- tumoromics
- tumorosphere
- tumorsphere
- Wilms' tumor
- xenotumor
Phrases with tumor
Words that rhyme with tumor
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Questions about tumor
- What does tumor mean?
- Tumor means an abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
- What is tumor in Hindi?
- Tumor in Hindi is फुलाव (phulāv), नववर्धन (navvardhan), ट्यूमर (ṭyūmar). See Tumor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tumor?
- Tumor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tumor?
- Tumor is pronounced /tjuː.mə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tumor?
- The plural of tumor is tumors.
Words near tumor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tumor (page history and authors); tumor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); തിണറ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ગાંઠ (Gujarati) (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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