malignancy Definition
ma·lig·nancy (mə lig′nən sē)
noun
- the quality or condition of being malignant
- pl. -·cies a malignant tumor
malignancy Synonyms
malignancy Usage Examples
Converse of object
- exclude: This should be followed up to exclude a malignancy.
- treat: What traditional medicines are available for treating blood malignancies?
- associate: Also included is coverage of infections and malignancies associated with HIV.
- develop: Nine of these patients developed malignancies, including 1 lymphoma.
- include: These include malignancy, illnesses of unknown origin and systemic inflammatory conditions.
- have: Patients who have a malignancy are also slow to respond to enzyme treatment.
Preposition: in
- patient: Results: Very few items were clearly suggestive of spinal malignancies in patients with spinal symptoms.
- man: Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men.
Adjective modifier
- hematological: The major clinical use of cord blood has been for hematological malignancy, mainly in children.
- hematologic: The coexistence of these two hematologic malignancies leads to questions about their cell of origin.
- hematological: AB - We have identified a group of previously not reported chromosome abnormalities related to myeloid hematological malignancies.
- lymphoid: The issue of gamma irradiation of blood components for patients with lymphoid malignancies should be kept under review.
- myeloid: AB - We have identified a group of previously not reported chromosome abnormalities related to myeloid hematological malignancies.
- gynecological: The overall diagnostic accuracy of MR imaging of gynecological malignancies in our hands is 93 % .
Noun used with modifier
- B-cell: CD22 is a cell surface receptor expressed in a wide variety of B-cell malignancies.
- childhood: Conclusions Unfortunately there is insufficient evidence to judge the clinical role of tumor markers in the treatment of the two childhood malignancies studied.
- neck: Peter Brennan's main clinical interests are head and neck malignancy, reconstructive free flap surgery and neck lumps.
- skin: Also, as already explained, skin malignancies form a special category.
- cell: The virus was isolated from an adult T cell malignancy.
- blood: Other blood malignancies, eg lymphoma or leukemia can sometimes be confused with multiple myeloma.
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