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MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream
Synonyms:
cancer; malignant neoplastic disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("malignant neoplastic disease" is a kind of...):
malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malignant neoplastic disease"):
lymphoma (a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer)
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia (malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer)
sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)
