Risks of testing for prostate cancer include: 1  a raised PSA level does not always indicate prostate cancer and biopsies will be needed to check if cancer is present. 2  biopsies and treatments for prostate cancer have harmful side-effects that may affect quality of life.
fume (plural fumes) 1  A gas or vapour/vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale. Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous state, e.g. metal oxides from volatilized metals. 2  A material that has been vaporized from the solid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
Example Sentences for fume. It is first found, in spite of the fume of the engines, in Howrah Station. Fiorsen was standing at the window in a fume of cigarette smoke. Put them upon a plate of iron, or of warmed copper: and if they fume not, it is a signe they are all deprived of their spirits.