neoplasm - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From neo- + plasm, after German Neoplasma.
neoplasm (plural neoplasms)
- (pathology, oncology) An abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue in animals or plants.
1947, William Lincoln Ballenger, Howard Charles Ballenger, John Jacob Ballenger, Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, page 208:
Other and less common causes for an oromaxillary fistula are infections, cysts and neoplasms of the maxilla which may destroy the intervening bone, resulting in a fistula between the maxillary sinus and the oral cavity.
2017, Gaballah AH, Jensen CT, “Angiosarcoma: clinical and imaging features from head to toe”, in The British journal of radiology, volume 90, number 1075, British Institute of Radiology, →DOI, →PMID:
Angiosarcoma is the most-common differentiated malignant neoplasm of the heart and accounts for 10–15% of primary cardiac malignancies.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:neoplasm.
abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue
- Bulgarian: тумор (bg) m (tumor)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: neoplasma (nl) n, tumor (nl) m, gezwel (nl) n
- Esperanto: neoplasmo
- French: néoplasme (fr) m, tumeur (fr) f
- German: Blastom n, Geschwulst (de) f, Neoplasie (de) f, Neoplasma (de) n, Neubildung (de) f
- Greek: νεοπλασία (el) f (neoplasía), νεόπλασμα (el) n (neóplasma), όγκος (el) m (ógkos)
- Irish: neoplasma m
- Italian: neoplasma (it) m
- Japanese: 新生物 (しんせいぶつ, shinseibutsu)
- Occitan: neoplasma m
- Russian: новообразова́ние (ru) n (novoobrazovánije), неопла́зма (ru) f (neoplázma), о́пухоль (ru) f (ópuxolʹ) (tumor, swelling), бласто́ма (ru) f (blastóma) (blastoma)
- Spanish: neoplasma m
- Swedish: neoplasm (sv) c, tumör (sv) c
- Turkish: neoplazma (tr), tümör (tr)
Borrowed from French néoplasme.
neoplasm n (plural neoplasme)