malignant tumor

Questions about malignant tumor

What does malignant tumor mean?

malignant tumor means "a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body".

What is another word for malignant tumor?

Close synonyms include malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor. 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 malignant tumor a common word?

malignant 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.