different between tumor vs tumoral

English

Alternative forms

• tumour (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tume? (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tju?.m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tu?.m??/
• Rhymes: -u?m?(?)

Noun

tumor (plural tumors) (American spelling)

1. (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Usage notes

Tumor is the standard US spelling and an alternative spelling in Canada. Tumour is the standard modern spelling elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (an abnormal growth): neoplasm

Hyponyms

• (an abnormal growth): primary brain tumor
• See also Thesaurus:tumor

Derived terms

• tumorigenesis

Related terms

Translations

References

• tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tu?mo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tu?mo?/

Noun

tumor m (plural tumors)

1. tumor

Czech

Noun

tumor m

1. tumor

Synonyms

• nádor

See also

• novotvar

Further reading

• tumor in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tumor in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tume? (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ty.m?r/
• Hyphenation: tu?mor
• Rhymes: -ym?r

Noun

tumor m (plural tumoren, diminutive tumortje n)

1. tumour, swelling

Synonyms

• gezwel

Derived terms

• hersentumor

Interlingua

Noun

tumor (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Related terms

• tumoric
• tumorose

Latin

Etymology

From tume? (“I bulge, swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.mor/, [?t??m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.mor/, [?t?u?m?r]

Noun

tumor m (genitive tum?ris); third declension

1. The state of being swollen.
2. A swelling, tumor.
3. The swell of the sea.
4. (of the ground) An elevation, swelling.
5. (figuratively) A commotion, fermentation, excitement; arrogance.
6. (rhetoric) An inflated or pompous style, bombast.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (swelling): tumentia, tumidit?s

Derived terms

• tum?r?sus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• tumor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tumor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tumor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tumor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• tümur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty?mur/

Noun

tumor m (plural tumor)

1. tumor

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tu?mo(?)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu?mo?/
• Hyphenation: tu?mor

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. (oncology, pathology) tumor (an abnormal growth)
2. boil (accumulation of pus)

   Synonyms: abcesso, furúnculo, pústula, carbúnculo, cisto, íngua, bubão

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?mor/
• Hyphenation: tu?mor

Noun

t?mor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tumor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tumor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?mo?/, [t?u?mo?]
• Hyphenation: tu?mor

Noun

tumor m (plural tumores)

1. tumor

Derived terms

• antitumoral
• tumoral
• tumoroso

Further reading

• “tumor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From tumor +? -al.

Adjective

tumoral (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a tumor/tumour.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.m?.?al/
• Homophones: tumorale, tumorales

Adjective

tumoral (feminine singular tumorale, masculine plural tumoraux, feminine plural tumorales)

1. tumoral

Portuguese

Adjective

tumoral m or f (plural tumorais, comparable)

1. tumoral

Romanian

Etymology

From French tumoral.

Adjective

tumoral m or n (feminine singular tumoral?, masculine plural tumorali, feminine and neuter plural tumorale)

1. tumoral

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tumo??al/, [t?u.mo??al]

Adjective

tumoral (plural tumorales)

1. tumoral

Related terms

• tumor