brain tumor

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) brain tumour

Pronunciation

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Noun

brain tumor (plural brain tumors)

1. An intracranial growth of abnormal and uncontrolled cell division.

Hypernyms

• tumor

Hyponyms

• primary brain tumor

Translations

an intracranial growth of abnormal and uncontrolled cell division

• Afrikaans: breingewas
• Armenian: գլխուղեղի ուռուցք (glxuġeġi uṙucʻkʻ)
• Asturian: tumor cerebral
• Catalan: tumor cerebral
• Dutch: hersentumor (nl) m
• Estonian: ajukasvaja
• Finnish: aivokasvain (fi)
• French: tumeur au cerveau f, tumeur cérébrale f
• Galician: tumor cerebral
• German: Hirntumor (de) m
• Greek: εγκεφαλικός όγκος m (egkefalikós ógkos)
• Hindi: मस्तिष्क अर्बुद (mastiṣk arbud)
• Hungarian: agydaganat (hu), agytumor (hu)
• Italian: tumore cerebrale
• Japanese: 脳腫瘍 (ja)
• Kazakh: ми ісігі (mıy isigi)
• Korean: 뇌종양 (ko) (noejong'yang)
• Macedonian: тумор на мозок m (tumor na mozok)
• Norwegian: hjernesvulst m
• Portuguese: tumor cerebral
• Romanian: tumoare cerebrală
• Russian: опухоль головного мозга f (opuxolʹ golovnovo mozga)
• Slovene: možganski tumor
• Spanish: tumor cerebral m
• Swedish: hjärntumör (sv) c
• Turkish: beyin tümörü
• Ukrainian: пухлина головного мозку f (puxlyna holovnoho mozku)

Further reading

• brain tumor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia