Nodule vs. Tumor

Nodulenoun

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Tumornoun

An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.

Nodulenoun

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Tumornoun

A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

Nodulenoun

a small node

Tumornoun

Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity.

‘Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style.’;

Nodulenoun

small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

Tumornoun

an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

Nodulenoun

(mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)