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Word: Tumour
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Latin tumor, from tumere ‘to swell’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈtjuːmə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant
Short Definition:swelling of part of body caused by abnormal growth of tissue
Examples:- she underwent six months of chemotherapy to try to shrink the tumour
Variant Forms:
- tumor
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