'Benign tumor' definitions:
Definition of 'benign tumor'
From: WordNet
noun
A tumor that is not cancerous [syn: benign tumor, benign tumour, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm]
Definition of 'Benign tumor'
From: GCIDE
- Tumor \Tu"mor\ (t[=u]"m[~e]r), n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tume['u]r. See Tumid.]
- 1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance.
- Fatty tumor. See under Fatty.
- Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized.
- Malignant tumor, a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death. [1913 Webster]