ADIPOSE TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adipose tumor mean? 

• ADIPOSE TUMOR (noun)
  The noun ADIPOSE TUMOR has 1 sense:

1. a tumor consisting of fatty tissue

  Familiarity information: ADIPOSE TUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADIPOSE TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tumor consisting of fatty tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

adipose tumor; lipoma

Hypernyms ("adipose tumor" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

 Context examples 

A rare benign slow growing adipose tumor, characterized by the presence of polygonal brown fat cells with abundant cytoplasm, that arises within the nervous system.

(Hibernoma of the Central Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)