BRAIN TUMOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain tumour mean? 

• BRAIN TUMOUR (noun)
  The noun BRAIN TUMOUR has 1 sense:

1. a tumor in the brain

  Familiarity information: BRAIN TUMOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN TUMOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tumor in the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain tumor; brain tumour

Hypernyms ("brain tumour" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brain tumour"):

glioblastoma; spongioblastoma (a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal)

glioma (a tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia)

 Context examples 

The results could also be applied to other conditions including brain tumours and Parkinson’s disease.

(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Medulloblastoma, a tumour of the central nervous system, affects one in every 200,000 children and adolescents worldwide and represents 20 per cent of all childhood brain tumours.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)

Brazilian researchers have developed a low-cost method of classifying the most common malignant brain tumour in children, which they say can help medics diagnose and treat the condition.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)