tumors
USTOO-murz/tuː.məɹz/UKTYOO-muhz/tjuː.məz/
UK spellingtumours
- 1Plural of tumor.
Surgeons removed both tumors in a single operation.
Benign tumors rarely spread to other parts of the body.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, and spelled the American way: British and Commonwealth writing uses tumours for the same word. In clinical usage the word covers any abnormal growth, so a set of tumors under differential diagnosis may turn out to be abscesses or areas of metaplasia rather than neoplasms. The plural does not by itself imply cancer.
tumors is a form of tumor
tumor, noun: An abnormal mass or swelling in the body, which on diagnosis may prove to be a neoplasm, an abscess, or tissue metaplasia. Full entry
- Forms
- tumortumors plural
- Spelling
- tumor → tumors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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