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Definition of Benign tumour
1. Noun. A tumor that is not cancerous.
Generic synonyms: Neoplasm, Tumor, Tumour
Specialized synonyms: Adenoma, Chondroma, Enchondroma, Fibroma, Myoma, Myxoma, Neurinoma, Osteoblastoma, Osteochondroma, Osteoma, Papillary Tumor, Papillary Tumour, Papilloma, Villoma
Medical Definition of Benign tumour
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Benign Tumour
Literary usage of Benign tumour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"The clinician replies, " When the benign growth becomes infected from without,
the benign tumour becomes malignant." Benign growths being, for the most part ..."
2. The Clinical Journal (1904)
"Here you have an admirable instance of a case which at first sight presented a
simple benign tumour, apparently easily amenable to cure by operation, ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1861)
"The conclusion, appeared to me irresistible, that the protruding mass consisted
of a benign tumour, which has pushed the eye before it; that said tumour was ..."
4. Urinary Surgery by Edwin Hurry Fenwick (1894)
"Now, it cannot be too strongly enforced that the benign tumour and the succulent
... When cystitis complicates a benign tumour, slight one-sided pyelitis is ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1907)
"When the bone is so expanded as to produce egg- "hell crackling, the tumour is
either a sarcoma, an innocent medullary cyst, or an expanding benign tumour, ..."
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