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MALIGNANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
Classified under:
Similar:
cancerous (relating to or affected with cancer)
Domain category:
pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)
Antonym:
benign (not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor))
Derivation:
malignance; malignancy ((medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death)
Context examples:
A low grade malignant neoplasm arising from the long bones.
(Adamantinoma of Long Bones, NCI Thesaurus)
A low-grade malignant neoplasm composed of epithelial cells and a spindle cell osteo-fibrous proliferation.
(Adamantinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A common cancer characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells.
(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A malignant neoplasm arising from glandular cells.
(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by focal or extensive transformation of the malignant glandular cells to spindle-shaped cells.
(Adenocarcinoma with Spindle Cell Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
An invasive adenocarcinoma characterized by focal or extensive transformation of the malignant glandular cells to cells with abundant, usually granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
(Adenocarcinoma with Apocrine Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
Malignant neoplasia of glandular epithelium composed of tubular and or villous structures penetrating beyond the muscularis mucosa.
(Adenocarcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
In some cases, tumors inside the pancreas can become malignant (cancer).
(MEN1 syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
It can be benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer.)
(Mesothelioma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
White Fang crouched down, and backed away, bristling, showing his fangs, his eyes malignant with menace.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
