exophytic

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
2. adjective The proliferating on the exterior or surface epithelium of an organ or other structure in which the growth originated.

Similar words

exogenic exostotic exophagous exophoric exophthalmic exopodal exosomatic exopoditic exogonial exocytotic

Often followed by

lesions growth and lesion mass or tumors tumor component