neoplasm
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The doctors said in a note that they had found no signs of "neoplasm," or abnormal tissue mass, during the procedure.
From Reuters ● Nov. 21, 2022
The report said that the mass in his lungs looked like a neoplasm — the fancy word for tumor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
“Rigid ideas of prognosis in terms of duration and dimension,” MacDonald wrote, “should be abandoned in favor of an attempt to evaluate the biological potential of a neoplasm in an individual host.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2018
His tumor is therefore a morbid growth, a new formation, a neoplasm or pseudoplasm, rather than a swelling, a bunch, or an excrescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Any process that increases the volume of the contents of the vitreous chamber, as hemorrhage, neoplasm, profuse serous or plastic exudation, may by pushing iris and lens forward produce an attack of acute glaucoma.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
