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Webster 1913 Edition
Tumor
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.
2.
Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
[R.]
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.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tumor
TU'MOR
,Noun.
The morbid enlargement of a particular part, without being caused by inflammation.
Any swelling which arises from the growth of distinct superfluous parts or substances, which did not make any part of the original structure of the body, or from a morbid increase in the bulk of other parts, which naturally and always existed in the human frame.
The term tumor is limited by Abernathy to such swellings as arise from new productions, and includes only the sarcomatous and encysted tumors.
An encysted tumor is one which is formed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. There are also fatty tumors, called lipomatous or adipose, (adipose sarcoma,) formed by an accumulation of fat in a limited extent of the cellular substance.
1.
Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Little used.]