malignant

  • 111malignant catarrhal fever — noun see malignant catarrh …

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  • 112malignant — As applied to tumours means that the primary tumour has the capacity to show metastatic spread (metastasise). Implies loss of both growth controland positional control …

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  • 113malignant — Synonyms and related words: acrid, allergic, anemic, antagonistic, antipathetic, apoplectic, arthritic, atrocious, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, belligerent, bestial, bilious, bitchy, bitter, bloody, brutal, brutish, cancerous, catching …

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  • 114malignant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. malign, vicious, criminal; harmful, virulent, pernicious; fatal, incurable. See badness. Ant., benign. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Diseased] Syn. cancerous, fatal, lethal, deadly, poisonous,… …

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  • 115malignant — ma lig·nant || mÉ™ lɪgnÉ™nt adj. malevolent, malicious, spiteful; harmful; deadly, fatal, likely to cause death (Pathology); cancerous (Pathology) …

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  • 116malignant — a. 1. Malign, malicious, malevolent, bitter, rancorous, spiteful, resentful, envious, virulently inimical. 2. Unpropitious, unfavorable, ill boding. 3. Extremely heinous, virulent, pernicious. 4. (Med.) Dangerous, fatal, virulent …

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  • 117malignant — adj 1. malevolent, malicious, wanton, malign, antagonistic, unfriendly, hostile, maleficent, malefic, unkindly, obnoxious. See malign(defs.3, 4). 2.Pathology. deadly, lethal, virulent, fatal, poisonous, toxic …

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  • 118malignant — ma·lig·nant …

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  • 119malignant — ma•lig•nant [[t]məˈlɪg nənt[/t]] adj. 1) inclined to cause harm, suffering, or distress 2) very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect 3) pat a) tending to produce death, as bubonic plague b) (of a tumor) characterized by uncontrolled… …

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  • 120malignant — /məˈlɪgnənt / (say muh lignuhnt) adjective 1. disposed to cause suffering or distress; malicious. 2. very dangerous; harmful in influence or effect. 3. Pathology a. of or relating to a tumour that destroys the tissue in which it originates and… …