malignant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
malignant/məˈlɪɡnənt/
▶adjective
- 1 evil; malevolent.
- 2 (of a tumour) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous. Contrasted with benign.
– derivatives
malignantly adverb.
malignantly adverb.
– origin C16: from late L. malignant-, malignare ‘contrive maliciously’.
'malignant' also found in these Oxford entries:
adenocarcinoma
- benign
- cancer
- choriocarcinoma
- fibrosarcoma
- glioma
- gloat
- Hodgkin's disease
- kurdaitcha
- leucosis
- leukaemia
- malignancy
- melanoma
- myeloma
- neurofibroma
- non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- quotidian
- rodent ulcer
- sarcoma
- tumour
- Wilms' tumour
