tumour English

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tumour Noun

— A tumour is an abnormal growth of tissue in a human or animal.

tumour

— noun (= tumor) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

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Simple sentences

The tumour was benign.

Swollen lymph nodes are usually found near the site of an infection, tumour, or inflammation.

Movie subtitles

Well, aside from too much Guinness and a brain tumour? Sure.

A tumour. That's what she had.

He's a 40-year-old man recovering from a tumour.

I had a stomach tumour, sir.

His tumour responded to treatment.

Your tumour seems to have improved.

I grow a tumour instead.

We can surgically remove him. Like a tumour.

We're not talking about a tumour.

A brain tumour.

Dr Banzai is using the laser to vaporise a pineal tumour without damaging the quadrigeminal plate.

Think the tumour is causing his delusions?

I don't think that's a tumour.

Well, yes, I guess the dark side of the spectrum is a brain tumour.

I just told you, he has a brain tumour.

One gastric tumour.

This is no tumour.

The bladder tumour is quite widespread.

It was an ovarian tumour, but completely benign.

Now, this patient is suffering from a brain tumour, and I should not be surprised if, within several weeks, he died.

Now, we have not as yet been able to locate the tumour, but we are still looking.

Ironically, within two weeks' time, it is Dr Birsky himself who dies of a brain tumour.

Joe Kendall, one of his cows has some sort of tumour.

The tumour?

It'll drive him crazy for weeks not knowing where the tumour got to.

Where did the tumour get to?

Tumour, Mr Herriot!

That tumour is growing all the time.

The tumour's smaller, much less inflamed.

At the autopsy, they discovered she had a tumour, which was turning into a cancer.

Probably a 24-hour tumour.

You don't have a tumour.

Your son has probably had that tumour in his head for years. And suddenly it burst.

You're rooting for a tumour.

This is a discreet tumour.

Are you looking for...?