as in lump
an abnormal mass of tissue
the scan showed a small tumor in her abdomen
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Recent Examples of tumor
Five years ago, the cancer progressed to a brain tumor.
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Beloved singer David Johansen has gone public with a stage four cancer diagnosis, a brain tumor and a recent fall the day after Thanksgiving that left him with a broken back in two places.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2025
The imaging can show how thick the endometrium (lining of the uterus) is and whether there are cysts, uterine or ovarian tumors, or anything else of concern.
—Sarah Bence, Health, 7 Feb. 2025
Female firefighters were 254% times more likely to develop brain tumors and have a high risk of thyroid cancer and melanoma.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
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Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
Beloved singer David Johansen has gone public with a stage four cancer diagnosis, a brain tumor and a recent fall the day after Thanksgiving that left him with a broken back in two places.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2025
The imaging can show how thick the endometrium (lining of the uterus) is and whether there are cysts, uterine or ovarian tumors, or anything else of concern.
—Sarah Bence, Health, 7 Feb. 2025
Female firefighters were 254% times more likely to develop brain tumors and have a high risk of thyroid cancer and melanoma.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tumor
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Whisk together buttermilk and egg in a small bowl or glass measuring cup; add buttermilk mixture and melted butter to flour mixture and whisky gently just until combined (some lumps will remain).—
Amanda Holstein,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2025
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Green lumps of prickly shrubs, called Eureka dunegrass, sprout up from the sand.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
15 Jan. 2025
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The company continues to focus on its core therapeutic areas, including oncology, inflammation and autoimmunity, and myeloproliferative neoplasms and graft-versus-host disease, with a strong pipeline of products in various stages of development.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
10 Feb. 2025
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Collectively known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs, these rare blood cancers are, well, very rare.—
Brittany Risher,
SELF,
30 July 2024
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This is in large part due to symptom overlap with other conditions like IBS, ovarian cysts, and pelvic inflammatory disease.—
Heidi Cope,
Health,
18 Feb. 2025
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Aside from noticeable hair loss at the temples and forehead, other signs of traction alopecia include thinning hair, scalp pain, and follicular cysts or small bumps on the scalp.—
Philipp Wehsack,
Vogue,
30 Jan. 2025
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Alibaba's domestic e-commerce business Taobao and Tmall Group produced revenue growth of 5% for the quarter and company executives said the division would continue to focus on market share stabilisation in the near future.—
Harshita Mary Varghese and Casey Hall,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Revenue in the fourth quarter declined 1 percent, but grew 4 percent when excluding foreign-exchange impacts, to $1.3 billion, with the U.S. growth outweighed by a 5 percent drop in Mexico, which amounted to an 8 percent gain when excluding currency impacts.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2025
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Researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) analyzed global trends in four main lung cancer subtypes: adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, small-cell carcinoma and large-cell carcinoma.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
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The other subtypes are squamous cell carcinoma, small-cell carcinoma, and large-cell carcinoma.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Tumor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumor. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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