Neoplastic Process
skin neoplasm
skin ne·o·plasm [ skin nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Dermatologic disorders; Neoplasms by Site
Definitions related to skin neoplasms:
  • A benign, intermediate, or malignant neoplasm involving the skin.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal skin 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
  • Tumors or cancer of the SKIN.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (neoplasm of the skin) A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the skin.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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