malignant
IPA: mʌɫˈɪgnʌnt
noun
- A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
- (historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
adjective
- Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
- (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
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Examples of "malignant" in Sentences
- Congressman Foley is the poster child for what we call malignant narcissism.
- APL is characterized by the malignant proliferation of these immature promyelocytes.
- The term malignant is used in describing cancerous tumors (see cancer) because such growths are a threat to the health of the individual.
- Sure, there was that initial rush of anxiety at hearing the word "malignant" for the first time, but it was already disappearing by the time I got off the phone with the surgeon.
- This trial was the first to report a survival advantage from chemotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma showing a statistically significant improvement in median survival from 10 months in the patients treated with cisplatin alone to 13.3 months in the combination pemetrexed group in patients who received supplementation with folate and vitamin B12.
- _malignant_ and _poisonous_ affections, as scirrhus and other varieties of cancer, and also cases of infectious virus, demand continually, or with but occasional exceptions, the primary galvanic current A B. ☞ In treating these malignant affections, the current should be run through as short a distance of _healthy_ tissue as possible, yet so as fairly to reach the diseased part.
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