The tumour had best be removed, though there is no urgency about the operation, as the growth is absolutely innocent.
The chief feature of a cancerous tumour of the breast is its great hardness.
The tumour consists of a dense framework of fibrous tissue, with groups of cancer-cells in the spaces.
The suggestion, sometimes made, as to the preliminary removal of a small piece of the tumour for examination is not to be recommended.
A galactocele is a tumour due to the locking up of milk in a greatly dilated duct.
There is, however, no telling as to what course an innocent tumour of the breast may take as middle age comes on.
If in any case the difficulty of distinguishing a chronic mastitis from a malignant tumour of the breast is insuperable, the safest course is to remove the breast and have it examined by the microscope.
The tumour is smooth, rounded or oval, and lies loose in the midst of the breast; as a rule it is not tender.
True, the tumour is not so definite or so hard as a cancer, nor is it attached to the skin, nor to the muscles of the chest wall, and if there are any glands secondarily enlarged in the arm-pit they are not so hard as they may be in cancer.
Meantime, even before the liberation of Solera and Fortini, Maroncelli was ill with a bad tumour upon his knee.
After the use of caustics, suppuration followed; the tumour broke out into wounds, but even these failed to bring relief to the suffering patient.
Jill wor honest and sober and true; but Poll herself, poor soul, suffered awful pain fro' a bad sort of tumour in her breast, and she tuk gin on the quiet to ease it.
A young gentlewoman had an obstinate scrophulous tumour in the right side of the neck, under the maxilla.
When the tumour originates in the periosteum covering the front of the bone, it forms a swelling under the cheek, usually in the vicinity of the zygomatic (malar) bone, and grows towards the mouth as well as towards the surface.
This may be due to the weight of the tumour pressing on the trachea, which has been softened and distorted by the goitre, or to temporary congestion and engorgement of the mucous membrane of the air-passages.
If the tumour is removed early and completely, recurrence is the exception.
In its growth the tumour blocks the nostrils, and so interferes with nasal respiration and causes the patient to snore loudly, especially during sleep.
It is comparatively uncommon for a tumourof the orbit to invade the globe directly.
If the sinus is invaded, the tumour spreads in the various directions already indicated.
When it is compressed by a tumour in the region of the medulla, there is interference with speech and deglutition, ulcers form on the tongue, and œdema of the glottis may supervene.
The plexiform neuroma forms a loose soft tumour situated in the course of one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve, especially the supra-orbital branch.
In the one, a large tumour had been removed from a woman aged 30, and the wound covered with gauze steeped in a solution of carbolic acid, in glycerin, strength 10 per cent.
There followed Emma Mourat to report; and then Madame Simonet, cured eight years ago of a cystic tumour in the abdomen.
She had been cured two years before of myelitis and an enormous tumour that, after twenty-two years of suffering, had been declared "incurable" in her certificate.
It is distinguished from ascites by the tumour and pain, especially at the beginning, occupying one side, and the fluctuation being less distinctly perceptible.
Inflammation of the spleen commences with tension, heat, and tumour of the left side, and with pain, which is increased by pressure.
In this case the tumour of the spleen was occasioned by the torpor of the absorbent vessels; while the secerning vessels continued somewhat longer to pour their fluids into the cells of it.
I saw what I conjectured to be a tumour of the pancreas with indigestion, and which terminated in the death of the patient.
And after he was much weakened by evacuations, the peruvian bark and small doses of steel removed the fever, but the tumour remained many years during the remainder of his life.
At the end of a month, no trace of the tumourwas discoverable.
Paracentesis was again performed several times, and a tumour was perceived to have formed in the lower part of the abdomen.
The possibility of a thickening of the parietes of the abdomen by inflammation, or by an exudation of a carcinomatous sort, being mistaken for a tumour rising out of the pelvis.
Four days after the injury was received, an aneurismal tumour was observed at the edge of the sternum, the surrounding effusion being greatly diminished by absorption; and at the expiration of a month, when she was first seen by Dr.
The tumour measured 8 inches in circumference, and weighed three and a half pounds.
The tumour was hard, diffused, and not very painful, except on pressure.
Being properly secured in a horizontal posture, an external incision was made on the inside of the sterno-mastoid muscle, and a cautious dissection practised until the tumour was completely exposed.
No tumour visible; pulsations can yet be felt; the skin is thickened; pulse at the wrist is at 50.
The tumour reappeared below the umbilicus about the size of an egg, and soon opened, discharging from small orifices a little pus.
The same reasoning explains how a fibrous tumour can be made to disappear.
Any wood, from being imbued with a kind of native poison, causes more pain and tumour than iron.
The tumour was succeeded by a corresponding degree of pain.
The tumour and inflammation hourly increasing, I could no longer doubt but that some venomous little animal had bitten me.
Vomiting and collapse are likely to ensue, and most likely blood will appear in the urine, or a tumour composed of blood and urine may form in the renal region.
The commonest form of malignant tumour is the result of the growth of cancerous elements which have been brought to the liver by the veins coming up from a primary focus of the large intestine.
I was afflicted with a fibroidtumour which weighed not less than fifty pounds, attended by a continuous hemorrhage for eleven years.
We have here an interesting case oftumour of the parotid, originally cartilaginous but now assuming malignant characteristics, and therefore requiring excision.
Then he saw him pinch up the skin above the tumour with his left hand.
The woman lay back upon the waterproofed pillow and her murderous tumour lay revealed.
I propose," said he, passing his hands over the tumour in an almost caressing fashion, "to make a free incision over the posterior border and to take another forward at right angles to the lower end of it.
It is but a swelling and tumour of the mind, but love is solid piety and real religion.
If a physician has treated a free-born man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the man to die, or has opened a tumour of the man with a lancet of bronze and has destroyed his eye, his hands one shall cut off.
If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumour with a bronze lancet and has cured the man’s eye; he shall receive ten shekels of silver.
If he has opened his tumour with a bronze lancet and has ruined his eye, he shall pay the half of his price in money.
I had divided the first of five arteries that had to be cut through before the tumour could be removed.
I examined him, and found he had a fatty tumouron the outer side of the right thigh.
Some new symptoms had now supervened, and the famous neurologist at once diagnosed a tumour in the spinal canal.
One of my first operations had been rendered absolutely inescapable by the great pain caused by a tumour in the leg.
He seems to have been disordered in every organ, dropsical, asthmatic, dyspeptic, with a tumour of portentous size, and agonising pains which reduced him to the extremity of weakness.
I changed the course of the mind to counteract the effect of the disease"; and of course the malignant tumour took wings and flew away, twenty-four hours of Christian Science being all it could stand.
To prove this she goes on to give examples of her wonderful powers, as will be seen by the following: "Only a few days ago I disposed of a tumour in twenty-four hours that the doctors had said must be removed by the knife.
A corn, be it remembered, is not a tumour or a growth, it is merely a bruise of the sensitive foot under the horn of the sole.
In some cases of long continued sandcrack the irritation of the laminæ causes excessive secretion, and a horn tumour results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
