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From neo- +‎ plasm, after German Neoplasma.

  • IPA(key): /ˈniːoʊˌplæzəm/

neoplasm (plural neoplasms)

  1. (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

Borrowed from French néoplasme.

neoplasm n (plural neoplasme)

  1. neoplasm