malignant
malignant
Definition
ma·lig·nant (-nənt)
adjective
- having an evil influence; malign
- wishing evil; very malevolent or malicious
- very harmful
- very dangerous or virulent; causing or likely to cause death; not benign; specif., cancerous
- Obsolete malcontent; rebellious; disaffected
Etymology: LL malignans (gen. malignantis), prp. of malignare: see malign
noun
Archaic a malcontent
ma·lig′·nantly adverb
malignant
Synonyms
malignant
modif.
Diseased
cancerous, fatal, lethal, deadly, poisonous, destructive, internecine, mortal, pestilential; see also deadly, poisonous.Harmful
deleterious, corrupt, sapping; see dangerous 1, 2, harmful.
malignant
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- melanoma: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.
- neoplasm: A cancer is the commonly used term for a malignant neoplasm.
- mesothelioma: Most people with malignant mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they breathed asbestos.
- glioma: AB - BACKGROUND: Topotecan activity was evaluated for the treatment of malignant glioma.
- tumor: Five of the six patients proved to have malignant tumors.
- tumor: Prostate Cancer is a malignant tumor in the prostate of men.
Modifying Another Word
- potentially: Some potentially malignant lesions can be managed by regular review, with or without medical treatment.
- highly: The implanted tumors develop into large, highly malignant brain tumors in the puppies.
- not: These growths are often called tumors but are usually not malignant or cancer.
- particularly: The effects of asbestos related illness particularly malignant mesothelioma which is a terminal illness is obviously devastating upon the individual and their family.
- very: The form originating from collecting ducts is highly infrequent and very malignant with the five-year survival in 20 % only.
- occasionally: It is occasionally malignant with local recurrence and pulmonary spread.
Used with adjective complement
- become: A few in every 1,000 of these may become malignant.
- differentiate: We came to the conclusion that in diagnosing patients with abnormal uterine cavity, MR imaging may help differentiate malignant from benign disorders.
- consider: GAN tumors are fatal and must be considered malignant.
- call: Sometimes a tumor is called malignant when it is a cancer, but malignant hypertension is not cancer.
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