phantom tumour

English

Noun

phantom tumour (plural phantom tumours)

1. A swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumour in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an anaesthetic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phantom tumour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)