BRAIN TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain tumor mean? 

• BRAIN TUMOR (noun)
  The noun BRAIN TUMOR has 1 sense:

1. a tumor in the brain

  Familiarity information: BRAIN TUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tumor in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain tumor; brain tumour

Hypernyms ("brain tumor" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brain tumor"):

glioblastoma; spongioblastoma (a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal)

glioma (a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia)

 Context examples 

Doctors use physical and neurological exams, lab tests, and imaging to diagnose brain tumors.

(Childhood Brain Tumors, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Corticorelin appears to inhibit swelling around brain tumors through reduction in vascular leakage and maintenance of endothelial cell integrity.

(Corticorelin Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of brain tumor that occurs in or around the pineal gland, a tiny organ near the center of the brain.

(Pineal Region Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat brain tumors that have already been treated with surgery or radiation therapy.

(CCNU, NCI Dictionary)

A cell-based cancer vaccine comprised of brain tumor initiating cells (BTICs), with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activity.

(Brain Tumor Initiating Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Other cancers that affect children include brain tumors, lymphoma, and soft tissue sarcoma.

(Cancer in Children, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Even with current treatments, patients with glioblastomas — a highly malignant type of brain tumor — tend to have poor survival rates.

(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

A malignant brain tumor that begins in the lower part of the brain and that can spread to the spine or to other parts of the body.

(Medulloblastoma, NCI Dictionary)

A brain tumor that forms from more than one type of brain cell, usually astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

(Mixed glioma, NCI Dictionary)

The primary objective of the "New Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy (NABTT)" CNS Consortium is to improve the therapeutic outcome for adults with primary brain tumors.

(New Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)