Neoplastic Process
mouth neoplasm
[ mouth nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Head and Neck Neoplasms; Mouth Diseases
Definitions related to mouth neoplasms:
  • (oral neoplasm) A benign or malignant neoplasm involving the oral cavity and/or the lips.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the oral cavity.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • New abnormal tissue of the mouth 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 MOUTH.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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