Neoplastic Process
tongue neoplasm
tongue ne·o·plasm [ tuhng nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Tongue Diseases; Mouth Neoplasms
Definitions related to tongue neoplasms:
  • A benign or malignant neoplasm involving the tongue.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal tongue 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 TONGUE.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (neoplasm of the tongue) A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the tongue.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
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