TUMORS AFFECTING CATTLE.

By John R. Mohler, V. M. D.,

Chief, Bureau of Animal Industry.

[Synonyms: New growth, neoplasm, neoformation, pseudoplasm, swelling, and hyperplasia.]

Definition.—Tumors[3] are abnormal masses of tissue, noninflammatory and independent in character, arising, without obvious cause, from cells of preexistent tissue, possessing no physiologic function, and characteristically unrestrained in growth and structure.