Do we say tumor or tumour

tumor 35 occurrences

(1 and 2 combined) Tumor, tumidity, tumult, tumulus, contumacy.

Among individuals in whom the juvenile thymus persists after puberty, no growth of hair occurs on the face, and in precocious involution or destruction of the pineal, hair appears on the face and in other terminal regions in children of six or less, a symptom classical in the child who suffered from a tumor of the pineal, and discussed immortality with his physicians.

Thus, when the cord is divided at any point, compressed, as by a tumor or broken bone, or disorganized by disease, the result is a complete loss of sensation and voluntary movement below the point of injury.

Another may have perfect eyes and yet have no sight, because a tumor presses on the nerve between the eye and the brain.

A pimple, swelling, or tumor.

The humour whence the musk is generated, falls down towards the navel of the animal, where it gathers into tumors like grumous blood; and when this tumor is ripe, it produces a painful itching, on which the animal rubs himself against rocks or stones till he bursts the tumor, and the contents run out and coagulate on the stone; after which, the wound heals, and the humour gathers again as before.

The humour whence the musk is generated, falls down towards the navel of the animal, where it gathers into tumors like grumous blood; and when this tumor is ripe, it produces a painful itching, on which the animal rubs himself against rocks or stones till he bursts the tumor, and the contents run out and coagulate on the stone; after which, the wound heals, and the humour gathers again as before.

When the moon is at the full, a tumor, or imposthume, grows on the belly of this animal, resembling a bladder filled with blood, and at this time people go to hunt this animal for the sake of this bag or swelling, which they dry in the sun, and sell at a high price, as it is the best of musk.

An ovarian tumor inevitably proves fatal in the long run if it is not removed.

[Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^. dilatability, expansibility.

intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.

When the withers begin to swell and inflammation sets in, or a tumor begins to form, the whole may be driven away and the fistula scattered or avoided by frequent or almost constant applications of cold waterthe same as is recommended in poll-evil.

When full, a seton should be passed, by a skillful hand, from the top to the bottom of the tumor, so that all the pus may have free access of escape.

] [Footnote 39: I.e. tumultus, as if it were tumor multus]

A painful tumor had developed itself on the back of her neck, and she had come up with her mother to Boston to consult Dr. Warren, who had advised its immediate removal.

Miss X. of Brooklyn, had suffered long and severely from a distressing tumor.

By November, the tumor had totally disappeared!

A SEVERE TUMOR HEALED.

During the year 1872, there was under the professional care of Dr. Cullis, at the Consumptive's Home, a Christian lady with a tumor which confined her almost continuously to her bed in severe suffering.

" I then asked her if she would trust the Lord to remove this tumor and restore her to health and to her missionary work.

From that time the tumor rapidly lessened until all trace of it at length disappeared.

Cancer handbook of the tumor clinic, Stanford University, School of Medicine.

The doctors finally decided that a tumor at the base of the brain had caused his malady and his death.

That something was either an aneurysm or a solid tumor.

" During his convalescence the President wrote to a correspondent, "I have the pleasure to inform you, that my health is restored, but a feebleness still hangs upon me, and I am much incommoded by the incision, which was made in a very large and painful tumor on the protuberance of my thigh.

tumour 60 occurrences

Now the gall, the tumour, and the corn are parts of the living body, which have become, to a certain degree, independent and distinct organisms.

I considered all additions to its greatness rather as the tumour of disease than the shootings of vigour, and thought that its nerves grew weaker as its corpulence increased.

The urchins peeped at him through the cracks in the walls and threw stones that fell on his miserable bed, where he lay gasping with catarrh, with long hair, inflamed eyelids, and a tumour as big as his head on one arm.

His looking big is rather a tumour than greatness.

Its importance was that of a polypus, tumour, fungus, or other erratic outgrowth, noxious and disfiguring in its effect on the individual organism which nourishes it.

They commonly set cupping-glasses on the party's shoulders, having first scarified the place, they apply horseleeches on the head, and in all melancholy diseases, whether essential or accidental, they cause the haemorrhoids to be opened, having the eleventh aphorism of the sixth book of Hippocrates for their ground and warrant, which saith, "That in melancholy and mad men, the varicose tumour or haemorrhoids appearing doth heal the same."

He is not sick, nor ever has been, for he is the cancer itself, the devouring tumour that for centuries has fed on living tissue, absorbing it and killing it.

They became a huge tumour, that nourished itself by killing the living tissues that came in contact with it.

A large tumour was to be extracted from the neck of a native.

The tumour has discharged its venom.

"Swelling!" ejaculated Blaize,"there's a tumour as big as an egg.

" "You neither lance nor cauterize an incipient tumour, do you, doctor?" demanded Blaize, without abandoning his position.

Seeing, from his altered looks and the livid and gangrenous appearance which the tumour had assumed, that his end was not far off, Judith resolved not to lose a moment, but to try the effect of a sudden surprise.

By degrees he grew calmer, and the throbbing anguish of the tumour in some measure subsiding, his faculties returned to him.

and tearing aside the collar of his shirt, he exhibited a large tumour.

I wanted him to place a hot loaf, fresh from the oven, to the tumour, to draw it; but he would not consent.

"He applied oil of St. John's wort to the tumour," replied Blaize, with a dismal groan, and said, "if the scar did not fall off, he must cauterize it.

That perpetual tumour of phrase with which every thought is now expressed by every personage, the paucity of adventures which regularity admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion over the passions which was the boast of their predecessors.

books yield a certain spell To stop thy tumour; you shall cease to swell When you have read them thrice, and studied well.

Yet is their empire no true growth but humour, And only two kings' touch can cure the tumour.

It might be that this was, in reality, a case of some brain affection accompanied by compression, such as slow haemorrhage, abscess, tumour or simple congestion.

ANEURISM, a tumour, containing blood, on the coat of an artery.

CRAWFORD, THOMAS, an American sculptor, studied at Rome under Thorwaldsen; his "Orpheus in Search of Eurydice" brought him into notice, and was followed by an array of works of eminent merit; died in London from a tumour on the brain, after being struck with blindness (1814-1857).

The baker spit with such force upon the first who entered, that an enormous tumour was formed, of which he almost died.

After deliberating amongst themselves, they opened the tumour, with a sharp stone, and from it came forth a woman who became the wife of each of the four brothers, one after another, and bore them sons and daughters.

Do we say   tumor   or  tumour