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Noun Concept
Categories: Oncology, Medical terminology
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malignancy  malignance  benign  Benignities  benignity
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(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death WordNet 3.0
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(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Malignancy is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer. Wikipedia
(For a cell, a tumor, etc.) The state of being malignant. OmegaWiki
A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign. Wiktionary
Malignant cancer. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
disease
HAS PART
cancer cell
HAS KIND
malignant tumor
neoplastic malignancy
CATEGORY DOMAIN
medicine
DERIVATION
malignant
DIFFERENT FROM
nefariousness
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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malignancy, malignance
Wikipedia
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malignancy
Wikidata
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malignancy
Wiktionary
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malignancy
OmegaWiki
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malignancy
Wikipedia Redirections
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benign, Benignities, benignity, Malign cell, Malign cells, Malign growth, Malign tissue, Maligna, Malignacy, malignancies, malignant, malignant cell, malignant cells, malignant disease, Maligned, Maligning, Maligns, Non cancerous

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