Definitions for tumors

tumors tu·mor

Spelling: [too-mer, tyoo-]
IPA: /ˈtu mər, ˈtyu-/

Tumors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in tumors (morstu).

Definitions for tumors

noun

  1. a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.
  2. an uncontrolled, abnormal, circumscribed growth of cells in any animal or plant tissue; neoplasm.
  3. Archaic. inflated pride; haughtiness. pompous language; bombast.

Origin of tumors

1535-45; Latin: a swelling, swollen state, equivalent to tum(ēre) to swell + -or -or1

Examples for tumors

It would be safer to remove every tumor of the breast at an early date.

Harry Hudson was about to launch a music career when he found a tumor the size of a grapefruit in his chest.

These drugs block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with specific molecules involved in tumor growth.

But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way.

His tumor had spread, and the next six years became a painful game of catch-up, one that he ultimately failed.

Diabetes, tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach, tumor of the brain.

If the tumor is large, more than one incision may be necessary.

He had examined the tumor in the breast, and knew that it could end in but one way.

The name of a syphilitic swelling or tumor is gumma (plural, gummata).

The tumor in his colon had spread to four of his lymph nodes and penetrated the bowel wall.

Word Value for tumors
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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