Definition of "neoplasm" []

• An abnormal new growth of tissue in animals or plants; a tumor. (noun)

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• "The term neoplasm is generally used for any abnormal growth."
• "You might see somebody who was diagnosed with a breast neoplasm—a lump on the breast—and the treatment code was a circumcision."
• "This seems to be a huge discrepancy in accuracy, suggesting a battery with only half the advertised road range -- ergo, a brazen lie, a metastatic neoplasm right at the heart and soul of the machine!"