Neoplastic Process
lung neoplasm
lung ne·o·plasm [ luhng nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Lung diseases
Definitions related to lung neoplasms:
  • A benign or malignant, primary or metastatic neoplasm involving the lungs. Representative examples of benign neoplasms include adenoma, papilloma, chondroma, and endobronchial lipoma. Representative examples of malignant neoplasms include carcinoma, carcinoid tumor, sarcoma, and lymphoma.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal tissue of the lung 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
  • Tumors or cancer of the LUNG.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (neoplasm of the lung) Tumor of the lung.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Lung tumors may be primary or metastatic from other sites in the body. The most common lung cancer is non-small cell lung cancer.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
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