Synonym: neoplasm, tumor. Similar words: tumor, rumour, humour, posthumous, posthumously, humor, rumor, humorous. Meaning: ['tuːmə(r) /'tju-] n. an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
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61. Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
62. Indeed, animal studies have shown that the presence of a tumour results in increased hepatic protein synthesis.
63. Moreover, one experimental study showed increased tumour formation with dietary calcium.
64. Atwater had become increasingly incapacitated by an inoperable brain tumour during the last year of his life.
65. However, it remains in tumour cells significantly longer than in healthy cells.
66. The tumour is operable.
67. Patients were selected consecutively on the basis of primary site of tumour.
68. Survival of patients was not improved by preoperative radiotherapy, but was significantly associated with a radical tumour resection.
69. This might open up new concepts for influencing local tumour growth and metastasis of colonic malignancies.
70. Tumour staging was dependant upon the histological features and the clinical findings at the time of resection.
71. Various mutations in both oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes have been implicated heavily in the development of cancer.
72. Every minor ailment is interpreted as the start of another tumour.
73. Incubation time and concentration of cytokines were chosen according to optimal responses known for the ICAM-1 upregulation on other tumour cell lines.
74. Enough premalignant cells are present in the bulk of stool to permit the analysis of tumour suppressor gene mutations by this technique.
75. Recent evidence has shown that the expression of enzymes participating in biotransformation may play a part in tumour drug-resistance.
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76. Worst of all, Winsome had developed a large malignant tumour on the eyelid of one eye.
77. This secondary hyperprolactinaemia usually indicates the presence of a large pituitary tumour not secreting prolactin or a cyst.
78. Plain radiography, with its superior spatial resolution, remains a key investigation in the initial diagnosis of a primary bone tumour.
79. His fate may soon be similar, having just had a malignant tumour removed.
80. Furthermore[sentencedict.com], there were no differences in serum cholesterol values in patients with different tumour grades.
81. Loss of tumour suppressor function requires inactivation of both alleles, usually by chromosomal deletion or point mutation, or both.
82. I have known him for five years and he has just been diagnosed as having a malignant tumour.
83. Little information is currently available on the role of interleukin 1 and tumour necrosis factor in inflammatory bowel disease.
84. All of these treatments, however, suffer from the same inability to reach tumour outside the bowel wall.
85. It happens when a lymph channel is blocked, either by a tumour or by scarring from radiotherapy or surgery.
86. He died in Weihsien 21 February 1945 of a brain tumour.
87. A curative tumour resection was the most important prognostic factor.
88. Tumour grading and tumour invasion were of borderline statistical significance.
89. How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour?
90. An interesting consequence of this process is that the mice are then resistant to infection with exogenous mammary tumour viruses.