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Definition of Neoplasms
1. neoplasm [n] - See also: neoplasm
Medical Definition of Neoplasms
1. New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms. (12 Dec 1998)
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Literary usage of Neoplasms
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1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1915)
"neoplasms OF THE LUNG AND MEDIASTINUM. neoplasms of the lung are usually secondary
to tumors of the digestive tract, bones, uterus or breast, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"TRITE neoplasms in wild mammals which live under conditions that closely approximate
the natural are extremely rare. This is true of relatively pure and ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"In this paper, an account is given of a series of testicular neoplasms, including
these 136, from 318 affected dogs that have been examined in this ..."
4. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"The neoplasms of the bladder may be classified as follows : Benign. ... There has
been some dispute as to whether some of these neoplasms are malignant. ..."
5. Manual of Operative Surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1916)
"CHAPTER CXIV OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF neoplasms Indications for the Excision of
Tumors.—It is frequently said that •< neoplasms ought to be removed. ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"V. neoplasms of the Hip and Thigh Of the neoplasms of the hip and thigh those
involving the muscle include an-gioma, fibroma and sarcoma (to be ..."
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