tum-, tume- +

1. A nonmalignant cystic tumor containing elements derived from the ectoderm; such as, hair, teeth, or skin.
2. A tumor consisting of displaced ectodermal structures along the lines of embryonic fusion, the wall being formed of epithelium-lined connective tissue, including skin appendages and containing keratin, sebum, and hair.
3. A benign cystic teratoma with skin, skin appendages, and their products as the most prominent components, usually involving the ovary or the skin.

1. To bubble up, especially from the effect of heating.
2. To swell or to expand; to enlarge.

1. A swelling, normal or abnormal.
2. A swollen organ or body part.

1. A substance that swells as a result of heat exposure; therefore, increasing in volume, and decreasing in density.
2. Enlarging; becoming enlarged or swollen.

Producing or tending to produce swelling or tumefaction.

1. The act or process of puffing or swelling.
2. A swollen condition.
3. A puffy or swollen part.

To swell or to cause to swell.

1. A swollen condition.
2. A swollen part or organ.
3. In medicine, a protuberance; a prominence; especially, an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.

A scrofulous swelling refers to chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery.

1. That which is swollen or showing signs of swelling; usually, as a result of a buildup of blood or water within body tissues.
2. Tumescent and tumor are related. Both go back to the Latin tumere meaning to swell. A tumor is literally a swelling.

The surgical suctioning of fat deposits from specific parts of the body, the most common being the abdomen, buttocks, hips, thighs and knees, chin, upper arms, back, and calves after pumping several quarts, or liters, of a salt water solution underneath the skin of the area to be "sucked" out.

Tumescent liposuction involves pumping a solution beneath the skin which swells it to facilitate suctioning out fat.

Tumescent liposuction is the most common cosmetic operation in the United States with over hundreds of thousands of such surgical operations done annually.

Liposuction breaks up and "sucks" fat out of the body. This is done through a cannula (a hollow instrument) inserted subdermally (under the skin). A strong vacuum is applied to the cannula.

1. A description of a body part or organ that is swollen.
2. Bulging or sticking out.
3. Using language or a style that is bombastic or inflated.

A slight swelling of a body organ or part.

An abnormally distended body part; especially caused by fluids or gas: "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh".

1. A slight swelling of a body organ or part.
2. Seeming to swell; bulging.

An abnormal mass of tissue.

Tumors are a classic sign of inflammation, and can be benign or malignant (cancerous).

There are dozens of different types of tumors. Their names usually reflect the kind of tissue they arise in, and may also tell you something about their shape or how they grow. For example, a medulloblastoma is a tumor that arises from embryonic cells (a blastoma) in the inner part of the brain (the medulla).

Diagnosis depends on the type and location of the tumor. Tumor marker tests and imaging may be used; some tumors can be seen (for example, tumors on the exterior of the skin) or felt (palpated with the hands).