NEUROFIBROMAS Synonyms

• a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

• a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

• (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)

• 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

• 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 new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

• tumor of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve