Tumor

n.
  1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
  2. Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.
    3. Encysted tumor ,
    a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance.
    Fatty tumor .
    See under Fatty.
    Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor ,
    one which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized.
    Malignant tumor ,
    a tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.