benign tumor

Questions about benign tumor

What is another word for benign tumor?

It depends which benign tumor you mean. In the sense “a tumor that is not cancerous”, the synonyms are benign tumour, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of benign tumor?

WordNet records no antonym for benign tumor. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for benign tumor come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of benign tumor

• Full entry for benign tumorAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for benign tumorWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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