Neoplastic Process
trachea neoplasm
tra·che·a ne·o·plasm [ trey-kee-uh, truh-kee-uh nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Tracheal Diseases
Definitions related to tracheal neoplasms:
  • (trachea neoplasm) New abnormal tracheal 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
  • A benign or malignant neoplasm that affects the trachea. Representative examples include tracheal leiomyoma and tracheal carcinoma.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • New abnormal growth of tissue in the TRACHEA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (neoplasm of the trachea) A neoplasm of the trachea.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Tracheal neoplasms occur infrequently, accounting for less than 1% of all malignancies. According to the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (NCI SEER) 1973-2004 database, primary carcinomas of the trachea occur at a rate of 2.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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