tumor
English
Alternative forms
- tumour (Commonwealth)
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.
Noun
tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)
- (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
- a benign tumor
- a malignant tumor
- brain tumor
- identify tumor
- pancreatic tumor
- remove a tumor
- take a tumor
- stomach tumor
Usage notes
Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.
Synonyms
- (an abnormal growth): neoplasm
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:tumor
Derived terms
- aniridia-Wilms' tumor syndrome
- antitumor
- antitumor
- devil facial tumor disease
- hypertumor
- hypertumor
- intratumor
- intratumor
- microtumor
- microtumor
- neurotumor
- neurotumor
- nontumor
- nontumor
- peritumor
- peritumor
- posttumor
- posttumor
- pretumor
- pretumor
- protumor
- protumor
- pseudotumor
- pseudotumor
- tumorectomy
- tumorectomy
- tumored
- tumored
- tumorgenic
- tumorgenic
- tumoricide
- tumoricide
- tumorigenesis
- tumorigenic
- tumorigenic
- tumoristatic
- tumoristatic
- tumoritropic
- tumoritropic
- tumorless
- tumorless
- tumorlike
- tumorlike
- tumor necrosis factor
- tumorogenesis
- tumorogenesis
- tumorogenic
- tumorogenic
- tumoroid
- tumoroid
- tumorolytic
- tumorolytic
- tumoromics
- tumoromics
- tumorosphere
- tumorosphere
- tumorsphere
- tumorsphere
- xenotumor
- xenotumor
Translations
oncology, pathology: an abnormal growth
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Catalan
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtumor]
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“I bulge, swell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈty.mɔr/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: tu‧mor
- Rhymes: -ymɔr
Synonyms
Derived terms
- hersentumor
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪ʊmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.mor/, [ˈt̪uːmor]
Noun
tumor m (genitive tumōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tumor | tumōrēs |
Genitive | tumōris | tumōrum |
Dative | tumōrī | tumōribus |
Accusative | tumōrem | tumōrēs |
Ablative | tumōre | tumōribus |
Vocative | tumor | tumōrēs |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tumor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tumor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /tuˈmoʁ/ [tuˈmoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈmo.ɾi/
- Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
- Hyphenation: tu‧mor
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tûːmor/
- Hyphenation: tu‧mor
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/ [t̪uˈmoɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: tu‧mor
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tumor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuˈmoɾ/, [tʊˈmoɾ]
- Hyphenation: tu‧mor
See also
- pamamaga
- baga
Further reading
- “tumor”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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