MALIGNANCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will

Synonyms:

malignance; malignancy; malignity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("malignancy" is a kind of...):

evil; evilness (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice)

Attribute:

malign (evil or harmful in nature or influence)

Antonym:

benignancy (the quality of being kind and gentle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death

Synonyms:

malignance; malignancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("malignancy" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Meronyms (parts of "malignancy"):

cancer cell (a cell that is part of a malignant tumor)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malignancy"):

malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)

Derivation:

malignant (dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor))

Credits

Context examples:

Sporadic enlargement of the thyroid gland that is not associated with changes in thyroid function or malignancy.

(Nontoxic Goiter, NCI Thesaurus)

Sporadic nodular enlargement of the thyroid gland that is not associated with changes in thyroid function or malignancy.

(Non-Toxic Nodular Goiter, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm composed of cells of neuroendocrine origin for which the malignancy status has not been established.

(Neuroblastic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

As tumor associated antigens (TAAs), LMP1 and LMP2 are expressed in various malignancies including nasopharyngeal cancer and EBV-positive Hodgkin lymphoma.

(Allogeneic LMP1/LMP2-Specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm originating from mesothelial cells of the pleura or peritoneum, for which the malignancy status has not been established.

(Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Chylothorax that results from malignancies (usually lymphoma), trauma to the thoracic duct, tuberculosis, or sarcoidosis.

(Acquired Chylothorax, NCI Thesaurus)

There is no evidence of mast cell leukemia or clonal hematologic malignancy.

(Aggressive Systemic Mastocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

LMP1 and LMP2 are expressed in various malignancies including nasopharyngeal cancer and EBV-positive Hodgkins disease.

(Ad5F35-LMP1/LMP2-Transduced Autologous Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Defects in this gene cause familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal dominant pre-malignant disease that usually progresses to malignancy.

(Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm, originating from glandular epithelium, exhibiting polypoid growth, for which the malignancy status has not been determined.