Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being malignant.
- noun A malignant tumor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being malignant, in feeling or purpose; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice: as, malignancy of heart.
- noun In English history, the state of being a malignant; adherence to the royal party in the time of Cromwell and the civil war. See
malignant , n., 2. - noun The property of expressing malice or evil intent; malignant or threatening nature or character; unpropitiousness.
- noun In pathology, virulence; tendency to a worse condition: as, the malignancy of a tumor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
malignant ordiseased . - noun A malignant
cancer ; specifically, anyneoplasm that is invasive or otherwise notbenign . - noun That which is
malign ;evil ,depravity ,malevolence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
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Examples
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Diet and nutrition are thought to play a role in the development of RCC, but the effect of specific food groups on the risk of this malignancy is controversial, explain Dr. Francesca Bravi and colleagues in the International Journal of Cancer.
High Bread Consumption Tied to Kidney Cancer | Impact Lab 2006
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Not infrequently a primary neoplastic change resulting in malignancy makes the affected cells so fatally ill that they would form no tumors did not their rate of division exceed that of their death.
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More recently, a fifty-three-year-old surgeon cut his left palm while removing a malignancy from a patient’s abdomen, and five months later he found himself with a palm tumor, one that genetically matched the patient’s tumor.
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Although Senator Kennedy has been battling a brain malignancy, he is expected to return to the Senate next week to preside at Mr. Daschle’s hearing, which will add poignancy to the proceeding.
Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Start Next Week - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Although Senator Kennedy has been battling a brain malignancy, he is expected to return to the Senate next week to preside at Mr. Daschle’s hearing, which will add poignancy to the proceeding.
Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Start Next Week - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The only reason America has lasted as long as she has, and even still has more than a few years left, is that this malignancy is at present encysted in a thick husk of sclerotic scar tissue – our permanent civil service.
Democoup « Isegoria 2008
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In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.
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Shope virus in vitro and reimplanted in the animals from which they had been procured, their cells, on proliferating anew, exhibited the mongrel aspect indicative of viral influence, and their malignancy was also greatly enhanced.
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In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.
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In that case, of course, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole point.
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851
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