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warts

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plural of wart

as in tumors

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In a study of 154 people with this type of rectal cancer who were treated with dostarlimab, 68% had a complete clinical response at one year, which meant doctors could not see evidence of tumors on imaging or other methods for tracking the tumors.

— Alice Park, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
What was more, the data suggested that going after the therapy’s bull’s-eye might unlock the power of immunotherapy in other, more common cancers that had stubbornly rebuffed such efforts, like pancreatic and ovarian tumors.

— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of tumors

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New Yale research may help explain why some patients with a small number of growths experience debilitating pain, while others with more widespread disease do not have symptoms.

— Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Uterine fibroids are common, noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during a person’s reproductive years, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of growths

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Burls are sound, hard, woody swellings or protrusions that form on the trunks, branches, or roots of trees.

— Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026
This microscopic roundworm lays its eggs in root tissues, causing swellings or galls to develop on infected roots.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 June 2026

Definition of swellings

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And just to take a step back, legumes are this incredible family of plants in nature that form nodules that are full of something called rhizobia, which are nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Deep-sea mining companies are targeting this vast reserves of metal-rich nodules to power the electric vehicle market.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of nodules

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That’s probably the most beautiful, using a fluorescent tag to label the lipids inside the network and then tracking it across many different nodes.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Inventory, rates and content move across these multiple nodes before a customer ever sees a booking option.

— Sanjay Ghare, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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