Neoplasm

Definition: Neoplasm

Neoplasm

Noun

1. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.

Note: Neoplasm \Ne"o*plasm\, noun. [See Neoplasia.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Neoplasm

Domain	Definitions
Health	A new growth of benign or malignant tissue. (references)
Medicine	A new growter of cells which is more or less unstrained and not governed by the usual limitation of normal growth(Elsevier's dictionary of nuclear science and technology). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Neoplasm

Synonyms: tumor (n), tumour (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Neoplasm

English words defined with "neoplasm": acanthoma, aplastic anaemia, aplastic anemia ♦ cancer of the blood, carcinosarcoma, chondrosarcoma ♦ embryonal carcinoma ♦ granulocytic leukemia ♦ hamartoma ♦ leukaemia, leukemia, lymphoma ♦ malignant neoplasm, malignant neuroma, myeloblastic leukemia, myelocytic leukemia ♦ neoplastic, neurosarcoma, nonmalignant neoplasm ♦ oral cancer ♦ plasmacytoma ♦ rhabdomyosarcoma, rhabdosrcoma ♦ skin cancer, skin tumor ♦ trophoblastic cancer, tumor virus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "neoplasm": Androblastoma, Angiokeratoma, Antibodies, Neoplasm, Antigens, Neoplasm ♦ benign neoplasm ♦ Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Chemoembolization, Therapeutic, Choroid Plexus Papilloma, Cystadenoma, Papillary ♦ DNA, Neoplasm, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ♦ Ganglioneuroblastoma, Genes, Structural, Neoplasm ♦ haemagioma, H�rthle cell neoplasm ♦ Intraductal Papilloma ♦ jaagsiekte ♦ Lymphatic Metastasis ♦ mole 2.nevus ♦ naevus, Neoplasm Circulating Cells, Neoplasm Invasiveness, Neoplasm Metastasis, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous, Neoplasm Seeding, Neoplasm Staging, Neoplasm Transplantation, Neoplasms, Second Primary, Neoplastic Endocrine-Like Syndromes, Neoplastic Processes, Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary ♦ Perfusion, Regional, pulmonary adenomatosis, pulmonary adenomatosis of sheep ♦ Residual Neoplasm, RNA, Neoplasm ♦ Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Superior Vena Cava Syndrome. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Neoplasm" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (neoplasm).

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Commercial Usage: Neoplasm

Domain	Title
Books	Concise Renal Pathology/Excluding Neoplasm (reference) Neoplasm immunity : mechanisms : proceedings of a Chicago symposium, 1975 (reference) Neoplasm immunity, experimental and clinical : proceedings of a Chicago symposium, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., September 13-15 (reference) Skin, heredity, and malignant neoplasm (reference) Wilms' Tumor (Nephroblastoma and Related Renal Neoplasm of Childhood) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Neoplasm

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is estimated that 5 to 10 percent of women in the United States will undergo a surgical procedure for a suspected ovarian neoplasm during their lifetime, and 13 to 21 percent of these women will be found to have an ovarian malignancy. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Neoplasm

"Neoplasm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neoplasm" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Neoplasm

Expressions using "neoplasm": benign neoplasm ♦ H�rthle cell neoplasm ♦ malignant neoplasm ♦ Neoplasm Circulating Cells ♦ Neoplasm Invasiveness ♦ Neoplasm Metastasis ♦ Neoplasm Seeding ♦ Neoplasm Staging ♦ Neoplasm Transplantation ♦ nonmalignant neoplasm. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neoplasm

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
neoplasm	117
malignant neoplasm	14
follicular neoplasm	9
neoplasm ovarian	7
definition neoplasm	5
lung neoplasm	4
benign neoplasm	4
neoplasm thyroid	3
cell hurthle neoplasm	3
administaition bladder intravesical neoplasm	2
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Modern Translations: Neoplasm

Language		Translations for "neoplasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		neoplazëm, tumor (growth, tumor, tumour), rritje anormale e një indi, e ënjtur (oedema, tumefaction). (various references)

Arabic		‏ورم (bulge, bump, growth, lump, node, swell, swelling, tumefaction, tumid, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Bulgarian		тумор (gibbosity, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumor, tumour), новообразувание (growth). (various references)

Czech		neoplazma. (various references)

Danish		nydannet vaev (neoformation), neoplasme (blastoma, neoformation, true tumour). (various references)

Dutch		nieuwvorming (blastoma, coined term, neoformation, true tumour), neoplasma (blastoma, neoformation, true tumour), woekering (excrescence, neoformation, outgrowth). (various references)

French		néoplasme (neoformation). (various references)

German		Neoplasma (blastoma, neoformation, true tumour). (various references)

Greek		όγκοσ (bulk, bunch, clump, excrescence, gobbet, growth, hump, hunch, lump, mass, nub, tumor, tumour, volume), νεόπλασμα ιατρική. (various references)

Hungarian		neoplazma (new growth). (various references)

Italian		neoplasma (neoformation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腫瘍 (tumor), 新�"�物 (tumor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅよう (absolutely necessary, chief, main, major, necessary business, principal, the master's business, tumor), し�"せいぶつ (tumor). (various references)

Korean		� 생물. (various references)

Manx		aase noa. (various references)

Pig Latin		eoplasmnay.(various references)

Portuguese		principiante (abecedarian, beginner, beginning, colt, dogface, incipient, incipient user, inexperienced, neophyte, novice, recruit, tiro, tyro). (various references)

Romanian		neoplasm. (various references)

Russian		неоплазма. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neoplazma. (various references)

Spanish		neoplasma. (various references)

Swedish		neoplasm (neoformation), vävnadsnybildning (neoformation), svulst (growth, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Thai		ก้อนเนื้องอก. (various references)

Turkish		neoplazma, ur (excrescence, fibroid, growth, tuberosity, tumor, tumour, vegetation, Wen), tümör (fibroid, fibroma, tumor, tumour, vegetation), doku büyümesi. (various references)

Ukranian		новоутворення (tumor, tumour), неоплазма, пухлина (bunch, protuberance). (various references)

Vietnamese		ung thư. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Neoplasm

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neoplasm": neoplasms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Neoplasm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neapolis, neelam, neopallium, neoplasms, Nespelem, Unioplus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Neoplasm"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "neoplasm" (pronounced nē"upla'zum)
7	-u p l a' z u m	cytoplasm.
5	-l a' z u m	iconoclasm.
4	-a' z u m	enthusiasm, sarcasm.
3	-z u m	abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, bosom, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, careerism, catechism, centralism, chasm, chauvinism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, ism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microcosm, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monasticism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, orgasm, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, phantasm, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, prism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, satanism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, spasm, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism.
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Anagrams: Neoplasm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pleonasm.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-n-o-p-s"
	-1 letter: espanol, plasmon.
	-2 letters: amoles, anoles, aslope, lanose, lemans, lemons, maples, melons, mensal, nopals, paeons, panels, planes, salmon, sample, solemn.
	-3 letters: aeons, almes, aloes, alone, amens, amole, ample, anole, aspen, elans, enols, lames, lamps, lanes, lapse, leans, leaps, leman, lemon, lenos, loams, loans, lopes, males, manes, manos, manse, maple, mason, meals, means, melon, mensa, meson, moans, molas, moles, monas, mopes, names, napes, neaps, nemas, noels, nomas, nomes, nopal, omens, opals, opens, paeon, pales, palms, panel, panes, paseo, peals, peans, pelon, penal, peons, plane, plans, plasm, pleas, plena, poems, poles, pomes, pones, psalm, psoae, salep, salon, sepal, slope, sneap, solan, spale, spean.
	-4 letters: aeon, ales, alme, alms, aloe, alps, also, amen, amps, anes, apes, apse, elan, elms, enol, eons, epos, lame, lamp, lams, lane, laps, lase, lean, leap, leas, leno, lens, loam, loan, lone, lope, lops, lose, maes, male, mane, mano, mans, maps, meal, mean, mels, meno, mesa, moan, moas, mola, mole, mols, mons, mope, mops, name, naos, nape, naps, neap, nema, noel, noes, noma, nome, noms, nope, nose, olea, oles, omen, ones, opal, open, opes, pale, palm, pals, pams, pane, pans, pase, peal, pean, peas, pens, peon, peso, plan, plea, poem, pole, pols, pome, poms, pone, pons, pose, sale, salp, same, samp, sane, seal, seam, slam, slap, sloe, slop, snap, soap, sola, sole, soma, some, sone, spae, spam, span.
	-5 letters: ale, alp, als, amp, ane, ape, asp, elm, els, ems, ens, eon, lam, lap, las, lea, lop, mae, man, map, mas, mel, men, moa, mol, mon, mop, mos, nae, nam, nap, nom, nos, oes, ole, oms, one, ons, ope, ops, ose, pal, pam, pan, pas, pea, pen, pes, pol, pom, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, sen, sol, som, son, sop, spa.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-n-o-p-s"
	+1 letter: endoplasm, neoplasms, pleonasms.
	+2 letters: endoplasms, impersonal, lampooners, menopausal, monoplanes, nemophilas, palimonies, polyamines, prolamines, pulmonates.
	+3 letters: compensable, complainers, compliances, endoplasmic, nucleoplasm, palindromes, personalism, plasminogen, scopolamine, supernormal, trampolines.
	+4 letters: amylopectins, anaplasmoses, anemophilous, commonplaces, complacences, complaisance, compliancies, contemplates, impersonally, kleptomanias, lampooneries, melanophores, monadelphous, nontemporals, nucleoplasms, pelargoniums, personalisms, plasminogens, scopolamines, splenomegaly, trampoliners.
	+5 letters: campanologies, ceruloplasmin, compellations, complacencies, complaisances, complexations, compressional, conceptualism, contemplators, impersonality, impersonalize, imponderables, incompatibles, kleptomaniacs, mesencephalon, metallophones, metropolitans, neoplasticism, nucleoplasmic, outplacements, phenomenalism, phenomenalist, phentolamines, postembryonal, premenopausal, semiporcelain, sportsmanlike, supernormally, unemployables.
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