tumor

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/tjuː.mə/(UK)
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/tjuː.mə/(UK) · /tuː.məɹ/(US)

Definition of tumor

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US)An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
    “a benign tumor”
    “a malignant tumor”
    “brain tumor”
    “identify tumor”
    “pancreatic tumor”

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Etymology

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.

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