tumor, tumour (tumor)

[F. tumeur = Sp. Pg. tumor = It. tumore, One tumour drown'd another, billows strove To outswell ambition, water air outdrove. B. Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers. 2. In med.: (a) A swelling; one of the four nece ary accompaniments, according to the older pathologists, of inflammation-namely, cal or, dolor, rub or, et tumor (heat, pain, redne , and swelling). (b) An abnormal prominence existing upon any of the cutaneous, mucous, or serous surfaces in any part of the body, and not due to acute inflammation. A tumor is usually a new formation of ti ue foreign to the part in which it exists, and is thus distinguished in gen from hypertrophy, though a hypertrophy may sionally be so localized as to constitute a true tumor. A neoplasm is called a tumor when it forms a prominence on any surface. A swelling may be acute or chronic, and may be circumscribed or diffuse; a tumor is a chronic circumscribed swelling. 3. A swelling port or style; tumidity; bombast. She satisfies and fills the mind, without tumour and ostentation. Evelyn, True Religion, II. 174. 6528 He stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, xxx i.