benign tumor

Questions about benign tumor

What does benign tumor mean?

benign tumor means "a tumor that is not cancerous".

What is another word for benign tumor?

Close synonyms include benign tumour, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benign tumor a common word?

benign tumor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.