n., pl., -cies.
- also ma·lig·nance (-nəns) The state or quality of being malignant.
- Pathology. A malignant tumor.
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malignancy
American Heritage Dictionary:
ma·lig·nan·cy |
n., pl., -cies.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
malignancy |
noun
- A desire to harm others or to see others suffer: despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, nastiness, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, venomousness, viciousness. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
malignancy |
A tendency to progress in virulence. In popular usage, any condition that, if uncorrected, tends to worsen so as to cause serious illness or death. Cancer is the best known example.
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malignancy |
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| metastatic capacity (medicine) |
| radioresistance |
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| Roget's Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 byHoughton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| Saunders Veterinary Dictionary. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition. Copyright © 2007 by D.C. Blood, V.P. Studdert and C.C. Gay, Elsevier. All rights reserved. Read more |
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