ADENOMAS Synonyms

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• vegetation that has grown

• the gradual beginning or coming forth

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• something grown or growing

• a compact mass

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• an awkward stupid person

• a large piece of something without definite shape

• put together indiscriminately

• group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

• (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death

• quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

• an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

• a small node

• small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

• (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

• tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues

• an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose