| NOUN | state | malignancy, malignance | (medicine) a malignant state |
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| attribute | malignancy, malignity, malignance | quality of being disposed to evil |
| Sounds | mahlih'gnahnsiy | |
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| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death. | |
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| Synonym | malignance | |
| Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
| Parts | cancer cell | A cell that is part of a malignant tumor |
| Narrower | malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor | A tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body |
| Broader | disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
| Spanish | malignidad | |
| Catalan | malignitat | |
| Adjectives | malignant | dangerous to health |
| Meaning | Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will. | |
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| Synonyms | malignity, malignance | |
| Attributes | malign | Evil or harmful in nature or influence |
| Broader | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
| Opposite | benignity, benignancy, graciousness | The quality of being kind and gentle |
| Spanish | malignidad | |
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