
adj.
- Showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil.
- Highly injurious; pernicious.
- Pathology.
- Threatening to life; virulent: a malignant disease.
- Tending to metastasize; cancerous. Used of a tumor.
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adjective
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malignant |
Definition: diseased
Antonyms: benign, harmless, uncancerous
Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine:
malignant |
Any condition that is life-threatening. The term pertains especially to cancers that may spread and lead to death.
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Health:
malignant |
A descriptive term for things or conditions that threaten life or well-being. Malignant is the opposite of benign.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
malignant |
| malic enzyme, malformin A, maleylation | |
| malignant hyperthermia, malnutrition, malonate |
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
malignant |
Tending to become progressively worse and to result in death; having the properties of anaplasia, invasiveness and metastasis; said of tumors.
Mosby's Dental Dictionary:
malignant |
1. resistant to treatment. adj 2. able to metastasize and kill the host.
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Malignancy |
Malignancy (from the Latin roots -male, "Bad" and -ignos, "Fire") is the tendency of a medical condition, especially tumors, to become progressively worse and to potentially result in death. Malignancy in cancers is characterized by anaplasia, invasiveness, and metastasis.[1] Malignant is a corresponding adjectival medical term used to describe a severe and progressively worsening disease. The term is most familiar as a description of cancer. A malignant tumor may be contrasted with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues (metastasizing), while a benign tumor has none of those properties. Malignant tumor is synonymous with cancer. Uses of "malignant" in oncology:
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Malignant |
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - ondsindet, ondartet
Nederlands (Dutch)
kwaadaardig, schadelijk
Français (French)
adj. - malveillant, malfaisant
Deutsch (German)
adj. - bösartig
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - κακοήθης, κακεντρεχής
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - maligno, virulento
Русский (Russian)
зловредный, злокачественный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - maligno, dañino
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ondskefull, olycksbringande, malign
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
有恶意的, 有害的, 恶性的
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 有惡意的, 有害的, 惡性的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 극히 해로운, 악성의
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 悪意のある, 悪性の
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) حقود, يتمنى السوء ل
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ממאיר, זדוני, רע
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