English Explanatory Dictionary

tumour

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of tumor.

Word forms

tumour tumours

Etymology

From Middle English tumour, from Old French tumour, from Latin tumor (“swelling”), from tumeō (“bulge, swell”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Related to English thumb.

Derived words

brain tumour hypertumour intratumour microtumour nontumourigenic peritumour pretumoural protumour pseudotumour tumoured tumouricidal tumourigenesis tumourigenetic tumourless tumourlike tumourous tumoursphere Wilms tumour Wilms' tumour
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