Word: tumorous
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...peculiar thing about "the specific factor" is that it is apparently the product of the action of the virus growing in a tumor-and it is different for every animal and even for different tissues of the body. So a cancer of any animal, for example, cannot be given to man from an injection of the animal's tumor containing 1) virus and 2 "specific factor" because the "specific factor" is inappropriate. But virus from an animal tumor, and a "specific factor" from a human tumor, will give man tumor...
...There are two varieties of malignant tumor: the sarcomata, arising from connective tissues; the carcinomata, arising from epithelial tissues. It is customary to describe them both as cancers...
...Tumor is hereditary in the common or wop banana fly Homeopath Mary B. Stark has discovered after ten years research. She described her efforts to breed out tumors in six generations of insects...
Died. Donn Barber, 54, famed architect; in Manhattan, of tumor of the brain...
...must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...