Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 10 of 10: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture Tumor, tu'mer, a word meaning swelling. As commonly used it is applied to a growth in the body which may be composed either of tis sues like those in which it is formed or of unlike tissues. The former kind of tumor is called benign, or innocent, and the latter, ma lignant. Innocent tumors are usually not a source of pain or discomfort, though they are sometimes an inconvenience. They are re moved without danger, and do not return. Ma ...
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Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 10 of 10: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture Tumor, tu'mer, a word meaning swelling. As commonly used it is applied to a growth in the body which may be composed either of tis sues like those in which it is formed or of unlike tissues. The former kind of tumor is called benign, or innocent, and the latter, ma lignant. Innocent tumors are usually not a source of pain or discomfort, though they are sometimes an inconvenience. They are re moved without danger, and do not return. Ma lignant tumors are painful, and are a source of ill health. When removed they are liable to return, and their tendency is to eat into sur rounding parts and to terminate fatally. See cancer. Tun'dra, the Russian name for the ex tensive, low-lying, swampy plains of Siberia, Europe and North America, bordering on the Arctic Ocean. The surface is covered with a dense growth of peat moss, which increases so rapidly during the summer months, when the marsh thaws for a depth of two feet, that each fall the ground has risen several inches in height. During the short summer season wild birds and fur-covered animals may be seen, while flowering plants flourish in some parts. The tundra cannot be crossed except in the winter season, when the surface is hard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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