Synonyms of cancerous (adj. malignant) carcinogenic. destructive. harmful.
Etymology. From cancer + -ous, from Latin cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”).
Neoplasm is another word for tumor.
An abnormal mass of tissue that forms when cells grow and divide more than they should or do not die when they should.
There are two general types of tumors: benign (non-cancerous) tumors and malignant (cancerous) tumors. A benign tumor is composed of cells that will not invade other unrelated tissues or organs of the body, although it may continue to grow in size abnormally.
carcin/o. Prefix denoting cancer. Used to form compound words such as carcinogen or carcinoma. Carcinogen.
The combining form that means cancer, cancerous: carcin/o.
Malignant and its opposite benign are medical terms used to describe a tumor or growth as either cancerous or not respectively.
Medical terminology refers to the words and language used specifically in the medical and health fields. The proper definition describes medical terminology as language used to describe anatomical structures, procedures, conditions, processes and treatments in the medical field.
Medical terms are built from four word parts. Those word parts are prefix, word root, suffix, and combining vowel.
Disease. The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body. For this reason, diseases are associated with the dysfunction of the body's normal homeostatic processes.
Listen to pronunciation. (beh-NINE) Not cancer. Benign tumors may grow larger but do not spread to other parts of the body.
A term used to describe a condition that may (or is likely to) become cancer. Also called premalignant.
In most cases, doctors need to do a biopsy to be certain that you have cancer. A biopsy is a procedure in which the doctor removes a sample of abnormal tissue. A pathologist looks at the tissue under a microscope and runs other tests on the cells in the sample.
Listen to pronunciation. (beh-NINE TOO-mer) A growth that is not cancer. It does not invade nearby tissue or spread to other parts of the body.
Malignant tumors are cancerous and can spread cancer cells throughout one's body through the blood or lymphatic system, a process known as metastasis.