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A mass formed when cells grow uncontrollably, which can be harmless or life-threatening depending on type.
means An abnormal mass of tissue formed when cells divide and grow beyond the body's normal checks, whether harmless or dangerous.
from From Latin tumor, 'a swelling,' rooted in the verb tumere, 'to swell' — the same root that gives us 'tumult' (a swelling crowd of noise and trouble) and 'tumescent.' Latin physicians used tumor as one of the classic signs of inflammation, alongside redness and heat; it simply meant a part of the body puffing up. Over centuries the word narrowed from any swelling to its modern medical sense of a distinct growth of tissue.
- benign vs malignant
- one stays home, one invades the neighborhood
- growth logic
- ignores division signals your body never revoked
- oldest evidence
- found in dinosaur bones, cancer predates humans
- root word
- latin for swelling, originally meant any lump