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tumour
English
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.
Noun
tumour (plural tumours)
- (oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
Usage notes
Tumour is the favoured spelling throughout the English-speaking world with the exception of the United States, where tumor is standard.
Derived terms
- tumourigenesis
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French tumour, from Latin tumor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tiu?mur/, /tiu??mu?r/
Noun
tumour (plural tumours) (Late Middle English)
- tumour (abnormal or morbid bodily growth)
- The growth of tumours or boils.
Descendants
- English: tumour, tumor
References
- “tum?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-30.
Old French
Alternative forms
- tumeur
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tumor.
Noun
tumour f (oblique plural tumours, nominative singular tumour, nominative plural tumours)
- tumor (abnormal swelling of an animal's living tissue)
- 1288, Somme Me Gautier
- Tumour ou enflour
- 1288, Somme Me Gautier
Descendants
- French: tumeur
- ? Middle English: tumour
- English: tumour, tumor
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growth
English
Etymology
From grow +? -th. Compare Old Frisian gr?d ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Synonyms
- (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
- (act of growing): development, maturation
- (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
- (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass
Antonyms
- (increase in size): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
- (act of growing): nondevelopment
Hyponyms
- (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor
Derived terms
Translations
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