benign tumour

Questions about benign tumour

What does benign tumour mean?

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

What is another word for benign tumour?

Close synonyms include benign tumor, 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 tumour a common word?

benign tumour 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.