PAPILLARY TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papillary tumor mean? 

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

1. a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPILLARY TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

papillary tumor; papillary tumour; papilloma; villoma

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

benign tumor; benign tumour; nonmalignant neoplasm; nonmalignant tumor; nonmalignant tumour (a tumor that is not cancerous)

 Context examples 

Representative examples of borderline neoplasms include serous surface papillary tumor, mucinous adenofibroma, and borderline Brenner tumor.

(Ovarian Surface Epithelial-Stromal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include surface papilloma, borderline serous surface papillary tumor, and serous surface papillary adenocarcinoma.

(Ovarian Papillary Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)