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A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

esembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

es of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an ægilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor. The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. Coleridge.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

To remove without cutting (as a tumor).

A hard tumor developed from the gums.

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison…

ate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

n of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. -- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.