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icence or sublimity. [R.] Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding par…

Distended; swelled. [R.] "His tumored breast." R. Junius.

Swelling; protuberant. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

e of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. -- Ad`i*pom"a*tous, a.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin,…

To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out. Math. ix. 17.

Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor. Graig.

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.