The excentric, peripheral, or infiltrating extension of the tumor takes place when the surrounding parts are invaded by the active elements of which the tumor is composed.
The growth of tumors extends in all directions, but a distinction has long been drawn between the concentric or interstitial manner of growth and the excentric or infiltrating form.
The colloid exudations are glairy, semi-solid, jelly-like masses, infiltratingthe tissues.
Their growth is rapid and infiltrating rather than slow and concentric.
Deeply burrowing and infiltrating forms which appear as lumps and ulcerations cause marked disfiguration of the affected part.
The infiltrating cancer begins as an elevation of the skin, which progresses until it becomes rough and nodular.
Endothelioma grows from the dura mater, and in so far as it is a well-defined and non-infiltrating growth it lends itself to removal by operation.
Emphysema of the scalp may follow fractures implicating any of the air sinuses of the skull, the air infiltrating the loose cellular tissue between the pericranium and the aponeurosis, and on palpation yielding a characteristic crepitation.
It appears as a rule under the sterno-mastoid at the level of the hyoid bone, and extends towards the submaxillary region, infiltrating the muscles and the sheath of the vessels.
Fracture of the anterior fossa is often accompanied by extravasation of blood into the orbit, pushing forward the eyeball and infiltrating the conjunctiva (sub-conjunctival ecchymosis).
Sediments are consolidated by chemical action when mineral substances, especially calcium carbonate, the iron oxides, and silica are deposited between the particles by infiltrating waters, cementing the particles together.
The gray infiltrating light seemed gaunt and cruel, and the thin cheeping of waking sparrows on the lawn came to her with a haunting intolerable note of pain.
He walked on, keeping the road by the misty infiltrating shimmer of the stars, with a sensation rather of gliding than of walking.
By noon it had fought its way through Chaume Wood, and by dark its patrols, infiltrating around machine-gun nests and under machine-gun fire from the slopes were in Sivry.
All the while the Germans, instead of holding fast to their positions, were acting on the offensive at every opportunity, infiltrating down the ravines, as they tried to creep around isolated parties, and again charging them.
The wisdom of our insistence that we could form and supply and fight an integral army, instead of infiltrating our men into the British and French armies, was on trial.
The "Libertys" could not make a move in the open without being seen; but they kept on infiltrating forward with the rare canniness they had learned in fighting machine-gun nests through underbrush.
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