Meaning of MALIGNANCY

Pronunciation:			mu'lignunsee
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WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [n]  (medical) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
	Synonyms:		malignance, malignance, malignity
	Antonyms:		benignancy, benignity, graciousness
	See Also:		cancer cell, disease, evil, evilness, malignant neoplasm, malignant tumor, metastatic tumor
Medical Dictionary
	Definition:		A cancerous tumor that can invade and destroy nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body.
Biology Dictionary
	Definition:		Cancerous growth, a mass of cells showing uncontrolled growth, a tendency to invade and damage surrounding tissues and an ability to seed daughter growths to sites remote from the primary growth.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, communicability, contagiousness, cussedness, deadliness, despite, destructiveness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, fatality, grudge, harmfulness, hatefulness, hurtfulness, ill will, infectiousness, infectivity, iniquitousness, injuriousness, invidiousness, lethality, maleficence, malevolence, malice, malice aforethought, malice prepense, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, meanness, mischievousness, mortality, nastiness, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, orneriness, perniciousness, poison, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, toxicity, unhealthiness, venom, venomousness, viciousness, virulence, virulency, wickedness