Tumors is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TUMORS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TUMOR, (US) an abnormal swelling or enlargement, now esp. a new growth of cells in the body without inflammation, also TUMOUR
• a swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
• a swelling of any kind.

Words related to TUMORS

tumor7

Words that contain TUMORS

antitumors12

How to use TUMORS in a sentence

• Tumors may surround nerves and eventually the nerve so exposed becomes implicated in the destructive process.
• Shoulders and hips should be smooth, well covered, and free from tumors or sores.
• Tumors may form in the cavity of the womb, in its walls or on the outside of it.
• With all these tumors the treatment usually is to remove the tumor and sometimes the entire organ.
• These phantom tumors have given many a quack a reputation for removing tumors without the use of the knife.
• Wearily as though they were paving-stones the animal lifted its hoofs which were swollen like tumors.
• The difficulties which arise in an endeavor to comprehend normal growth are greater when the growth of tumors is considered.
• Certain tumors have color which depends upon the presence of a dark brown or black pigment within the cells.
• Tumors like the tissues of the normal body are nourished by the blood and contain blood vessels often in great numbers.
• The cells of tumors peculiar to man show a narrow range of adaptation.
• Little is known in regard to the influence of inheritance on the formation of tumors.
• Study of the tumors of mice show a slightly greater susceptibility to tumor formation in the progeny of mice who have developed tumors.
• Studies of human families seem to show that heredity has a slight influence, but in the frequency of tumors such statistical evidence is of little value.
• The question of inheritance has much bearing on the origin of tumors.
• The question as to whether tumors are an increasing cause of disease is equally difficult of solution.
• Deaths from tumors were formerly often purposely concealed and attributed to some other cause.
• In a certain number of cases tumors do develop at the site of injuries.
• Tumors are not most common on those parts of the body which are most exposed to injury.
• There does, however, seem to be a relation between tumors and injuries of a certain character.
• Also tumors may occur in parts of the body in which there is no tissue capable of forming structures which may be present in the tumors.
• The problems concerned in the nature and cause of tumors are the most important in medicine at the present time.
• The use of surgical means in the cure, that is the removal, of tumors, both external and internal, has been greatly extended and perfected.

Similar words containing TUMOR without suffix s

tumor7 tumoral9 tumorous10 antitumor11 tumorlike15 antitumors12 tumorgenic15 antitumoral13 tumorigenic16 tumorgenicity21 tumorigeneses16 tumorigenesis16 tumorigenicity22 tumorgenicities20 tumorigenicitie20 tumorigenicities21

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