tumour

/ ˈtjuːmə /

noun

1. pathol

   1. any abnormal swelling

   2. a mass of tissue formed by a new growth of cells, normally independent of the surrounding structures

2. obsolete,  pompous style or language

Other Word Forms

• tumorous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tumour¹

C16: from Latin, from tumēre to swell

Example Sentences

When Kat Denisi was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 she was put into a medically-induced menopause to stop her hormones fuelling the tumour.

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The 26-year-old told the BBC she was informed it was just a cyst, but in three months the tumour had grown "into the size of a golf ball".

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In different wards of Nasser Hospital lie two 10-year-old boys, one shot by Israeli fire and paralysed from the neck down, another with a brain tumour.

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But a CT scan done to check for any internal damage revealed a "sizeable" cancerous tumour on her kidney that she had no idea even existed.

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The Galleri test, made by American pharmaceutical firm Grail, can detect fragments of cancerous DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.

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