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neoplasm

ne·o·plasm

neoplasm

 
pronunciation:
ni plae zm
features:
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part of speech: noun
definition: a new growth of tissue that is abnormal or different from surrounding tissue; growth or tumor.
similar words:
growth
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adjective + (n.)neoplasm aggressive, benign, collaborative, common, differential, epithelial, facial, follicular, inflammatory, international, laryngeal, low, malignant, metastatic, minor, multiple, pancreatic, parotid, present, primary, rare, recurrent, reported, salivary, squamous, sublingual, suspicious, temporal, thyroid, true, uncommon, vascular  [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)neoplasm account, arise, associate, compose, consider, derive, develop, may, occur, originate, present, relate, remove, represent, reveal, rule, select, show, suggest, tend
noun + (n.)neoplasm Help adult, anomaly, appearance, base, behavior, bone, cancer, carcinoma, cell, contrast, diagnosis, disease, feature, figure, foot, gland, goiter, group, growth, head, heart, icon, individual, infection, involvement, larynx, lesion, malignancy, malignant, metastasis, muscle, nature, neck, nerve, patient, percentage, plasma, radon, removal, sign, skull, spindle, tissue, trauma, tumor, type [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: neoplastic (adj.)
Word Parts  About this feature
The word neoplasm contains the following parts:
neo Greek root that means new, recent
synonyms:
nov