Neoplastic Process
cardiovascular neoplasm
car·di·o·vas·cu·lar ne·o·plasm
Definitions related to cardiovascular neoplasm:
  • A benign or malignant neoplasm that affects the heart and/or vessels. Representative examples of benign neoplasms include atrial myxoma, hemangioma, and lymphangioma. Representative examples of malignant neoplasms include pericardial malignant mesothelioma and angiosarcoma.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal cardiovascular tissue that grows by excessive cellular division and proliferation more rapidly than normal and continues to grow after the stimuli that initiated the new growth cease.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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