Lesion vs. Tumor

Lesionnoun

(pathology) A wound or injury.

Lesionnoun

(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.

Lesionnoun

(biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.

Lesionverb

(transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

Lesionnoun

A hurt; an injury.

Lesionnoun

any visible abnormal structural change in a bodily part

Lesionnoun

any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision

Lesion

A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by disease or trauma. Lesion is derived from the Latin laesio .

Tumornoun

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

Tumornoun

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

Tumornoun

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

Tumornoun

an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose