morbid growth -
1growth — Synonyms and related words: about face, abscess, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ague, alchemy, amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea,… …
2growth — n. 1 the act or process of growing. 2 an increase in size or value. 3 something that has grown or is growing. 4 Med. a morbid formation. 5 the cultivation of produce. 6 a crop or yield of grapes. Phrases and idioms: full growth the size… …
3growth — /groʊθ / (say grohth) noun 1. the act, process, or manner of growing; development; gradual increase. 2. stage of development. 3. something that has grown or developed by or as by a natural process; a product: a growth of weeds. 4. Pathology a… …
4growth — n. [A.S. growan] 1. The development of an organism by assimilation. 2. A morbid formation, as a tumor …
5malignant growth — Synonyms and related words: benign tumor, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, corn, cyst, excrescence, fungosity, fungus, growth, intumescence, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, proud flesh,… …
6mor´bid|ness — mor|bid «MR bihd», adjective. 1. unhealthy; not wholesome; sickly: »morbid fancies, a morbid look. A liking for horror is morbid. SYNONYM(S): unsound, unwholesome. 2. caused by disease; characteristic of disease; diseased: »Cancer is a morbid… …
7mor´bid|ly — mor|bid «MR bihd», adjective. 1. unhealthy; not wholesome; sickly: »morbid fancies, a morbid look. A liking for horror is morbid. SYNONYM(S): unsound, unwholesome. 2. caused by disease; characteristic of disease; diseased: »Cancer is a morbid… …
8mor|bid — «MR bihd», adjective. 1. unhealthy; not wholesome; sickly: »morbid fancies, a morbid look. A liking for horror is morbid. SYNONYM(S): unsound, unwholesome. 2. caused by disease; characteristic of disease; diseased: »Cancer is a morbid growth …
9pathologic — adjective 1. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology (Freq. 1) diseased tonsils a morbid growth pathologic tissue pathological bodily processes • Syn: ↑diseased, ↑morbid, ↑ …
10fungoid — Resembling a fungus; denoting an exuberant morbid growth on the surface of the body. * * * fun·goid fəŋ .gȯid adj resembling, characteristic of, caused by, or being a fungus <a fungoid ulcer> <a fungoid growth> * * * 1. adj.… …
