neoplasm
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The doctors said in a note that they had found no signs of "neoplasm," or abnormal tissue mass, during the procedure.
From Reuters ● Nov. 21, 2022
The report said that the mass in his lungs looked like a neoplasm — the fancy word for tumor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
“Rigid ideas of prognosis in terms of duration and dimension,” MacDonald wrote, “should be abandoned in favor of an attempt to evaluate the biological potential of a neoplasm in an individual host.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2018
Can you see that neoplasm under the membrane?
From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor
A tumour or neoplasm is a localised swelling composed of newly formed tissue which fulfils no physiological function.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
