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Definition of Malignancy

1. Noun. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death.

2. Noun. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will.

Definition of Malignancy

1. Noun. The state of being malignant or diseased. ¹

2. Noun. A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign. ¹

3. Noun. That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malignancy

1. [n -CIES]

Medical Definition of Malignancy

1. (pl. Malignancies) a cancer. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malignancy

malicho malichos malicing malicious malicious gossip malicious mischief malicious prosecution maliciously maliciousness maliciousnesses

maliferous malign malignance malignances malignancies malignancy (current term) malignancy and immunodeficiency malignant malignant anaemia malignant anemia

malignant carcinoid syndrome malignant catarrh malignant catarrh of cattle malignant catarrhal fever malignant catarrhal fever virus malignant ciliary epithelioma malignant dysentery malignant dyskeratosis malignant endocarditis malignant exophthalmos

Literary usage of Malignancy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"Before considering more in detail the use of radium and roentgen rays in the treatment of malignancy, I should like to emphasize briefly certain well known ..."

2. Diseases of the Thyroid Gland by Arthur Emanuel Hertzler, Victor Ernest Chesky (1922)
"malignancy There are those who speak of curing malignancy of the thyroid. ... When we have to do with suspected malignancy we may be pretty sure that either ..."

3. Two monographs on malaria and the parasites of malarial fevers by Amico Bignami, Julius Mannaberg, Ettore Marchiafava (1894)
"The most frequent forms of malignancy in the Roman Campagna— ... as regards the condition of the parasites—Causes of malignancy inferred from examining into ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"I. Malice, malignity, bitte malignancy, I enmity, extreme malevolence. 3. ... I. Malice, malevolence, malicious- ness, malignancy, hatred, ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"THE malignancy OF SOME APPARENTLY BENIGN OVARIAN CYSTS. BY FRANK E. TAYLOR, M.Sc., MA, MB (Vicr.). FRCS (ENG.). Pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for ..."

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