Heightened; raised. Obsolete.

Medicine. Relating to or of the nature of a blood clot in the heart or a large blood vessel. Esp. in polypous concretion. Cf. polypus, n. 1b. Obsolete…

Medicine. = polypous, adj. 1.

Formed by extravasation.

Of a windy nature, full of air or wind. Of a tumour: Turgid with air. Obsolete.

Medicine. Of a neoplasm: located in the organ or tissue of origin (esp. as opposed to being metastatic). Cf. secondary, n. 13.

Resembling a breast or mammary gland. Formerly esp. in mammary sarcoma. Obsolete.

of the nature of an osteosarcoma; of or relating to an osteosarcoma.

Medicine. Resembling or of the nature of a polyp (polyp, n. 1); characterized by the presence of polyps.

Of the nature of or resembling cancer; (in later use) precancerous. disused.

Of similar form or structure: spec. Pathology. (See quot. 1854.)

Characterized by the presence of melanin; melanic; melanotic. Also (of a substance): of the nature of or relating to melanin.

Medicine. Of a growth: having the form of a polyp (polyp, n. 1). rare.

of the nature of a tyroma.

Of a disease or tumour: not malignant. Also in extended use.

Caused by extravasation of blood.

Of the nature of or resembling an adenoma; of or relating to an adenoma; (of hyperplasia) nodular.

= histoid, adj. 1.

Resembling (that of) tissue, esp. loose connective tissue. In later use also: = histiocytoid adj. at histiocyte, n. derivatives. Cf. histioid, adj.

Of the nature of or resembling a myxoma. Also: = mucoid, adj.

(attributive) composed or consisting of small cells (cf. small-celled adj. at compounds 1a); spec. designating a tumour, now esp. a carcinoma…

Medicine. = polypoid, adj. 1.

of the nature of or resembling a lymphoma.

Relating to or of the nature of a myoma; affected with a myoma.

of the nature of or affected with hæmatoma (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886).

of the nature of a teratoma.

Medicine. Of a tumour: involving or apparently composed of more than one type of cell or tissue; spec. designating an adenoma or carcinoma of a…

of, relating to, or characteristic of a psammoma; of the nature of or containing psammoma bodies.

Excavated as, or by, a tunnel; formed by tunnelling.

= mycotic, adj. 3.

Esp. of living cells or tissue: resistant to the action of ionizing radiation.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a melanoma or melanomas.

sarcoid-like adj.

(of an antigen) occurring in tumours and in the fetus, but not in the adult; characteristic of such antigens.