abnormal growth
Tissue gone wrong
Abnormal growth describes development that deviates from typical patterns—usually referring to tissue that grows where it shouldn't, faster than it should, or in ways that disrupt normal function.
In medical contexts, the phrase often refers to tumors or lesions: The scan revealed an abnormal growth on her thyroid.
The term is deliberately neutral, used when the nature of the growth—benign or malignant—hasn't been determined.
- tumorAbnormal tissue mass
- tumor markerSubstance indicating possible malignancy
- massQuantity of matter
- lumpShapeless solid mass
- malignantHarmfully invasive, often fatal
benign · cancer · cyst · lesion · mutant · swelling · polyp · nodule · metastasis · biopsy · second opinion · cells · cell division · tissue · fatty tissue · spreading · invasive · oncology
- growthincrease, increasing, expansion, expand, expanding
- abnormalitiesmalformation, deformation, anomaly, birth defect, cleft palate
- gigantismgigantism, acromegaly, pituitary gland, Andre the Giant
abnormal growthatrophy
Wasting from disuse
shrinkage · degeneration · wasting · necrosis · cell death
abnormal, abnormally, abnormality, abnormalities, normal, normally, normality, norm, norms