growth

growth definition - medical

growth (grōth)

noun
  1. The process of growing.
  2. Full development; maturity.
  3. An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength.
  4. Something that grows or has grown.
  5. An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on an organism.

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