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touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp.

Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors. -- n.

A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue.

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.

showing undulation or fluctuation; as, a fluctuant tumor.

nal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.

A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.

A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

m. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor (Med.), a gumma.

Pertaining to the throat. [Obs.] "Gutturine tumor." Ray.

A tumor filled with blood.

terologous organs. Heterologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.

Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor.

Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.