NEOPLASIAS Synonyms

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

• any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

• a small zodiacal constellation in the Northern Hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini

• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

• type genus of the family Cancridae

• any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

• (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

• any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

• (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 usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer

• an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose