Neoplastic Process
liver neoplasm
liv·er ne·o·plasm [ liv-er nee-uh-plaz-uhm ]
Subclass of:
Digestive System Neoplasms; Liver diseases
Definitions related to liver neoplasms:
  • New abnormal liver 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; do not confuse with intrahepatic neoplasm as that may refer to bile duct neoplasm (BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASM).
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Tumors or cancer of the LIVER.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (neoplasm of the liver) A tumor (abnormal growth of tissue) of the liver.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Liver tumors may be noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant). Cancerous liver tumors are classified as primary (originating in the liver) or metastatic (spreading from elsewhere in the body). Most liver cancers are metastatic. Cancers often spread to the liver because when cancer cells break away from cancer elsewhere in the body,...
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
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