Neoplastic Process
eye neoplasm
eye ne·o·plasm [ ahy nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Neoplasms by Site; Disorder of eye
Definitions related to eye neoplasms:
  • A benign or malignant neoplasm affecting the structures of the eye.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal eye 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; for the external lid of the eye use EYELID NEOPLASM.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Tumors or cancer of the EYE.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (neoplasm of the eye) A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the eye.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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