malignancy

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  1. noun The state or quality of being malignant.
  2. noun Pathology A malignant tumor.

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  • The more the North thinks of humanity as a malignancy, the more we will unconsciously long for disasters. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • The following distich is sufficient to show his malignancy, and to hold him up to execration By his own art, who justly died A blund'ring, artless suicide Share, earthworms, share, since now he's dead His megrim, maggot-bitten head This scurrilous epitaph produced a burst of public indignation that awed for a time even the infamous Kenrick into silence. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • But Acer had been severely wounded that day back in the dorm, and the malignancy was progressive.
  • Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major age-related malignancy, and according to estimates from the American Cancer Society, a man's chance of developing this cancer significantly increases with increasing age, from 1 in 10,149 by age 39 to 1 in 38 by age —  Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
  • ASPP family of proteins in this malignancy is poorly understood. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
 

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/məˈlɪgnənsi/
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