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Definitions: Malignancy |
MalignancyNoun1. (medical) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death. 2. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malignancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A cancerous tumor that can invade and destroy nearby tissue and spread to other parts of the body. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MAC | English | Malignancy associated changes | N/A |
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Synonyms: MalignancySynonyms: malignance (n), malignity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: benignity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Malignancy |
| English words defined with "malignancy": malice aforethought ♦ pestilent, pestilential, plaguelike, plaguey. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "malignancy": CA-15-3 Antigen, Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous ♦ false positive, False Positive Reactions ♦ Leukemia-Lymphoma, T-Cell, Acute, HTLV-I-Associated ♦ Papillomavirus, Papillomavirus, Human, Polyomavirus macacae. (references) |
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Screenplays | There should be a special level of hell for this pus-sucking, gangrenous malignancy of a mental amoeba. (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; writing credit: Ervin Iunapuu) | |
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Karl Menninger | To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it. |
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Health | Carcinoma of the breast is the most common malignancy in women in the United States. (references) | |
Detection and surgical treatment of the early stages of this malignancy are usually curative. (references) | ||
However, data are lacking as to the efficacy and safety of this approach in the management of possible ovarian malignancy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Malignancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malignancy" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 117 | 29,823 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malignancy | 23 |
hypercalcemia malignancy | 3 |
celiac disease in malignancy | 2 |
malignancy neuroleptic syndrome | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "malignancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | natyrë malinje (malignity), keqdashje (ill will, malevolence, malice, viciousness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Arabic | حقد (animosity, antagonism, bear a grudge, bitter feeling, gall, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spitefulness, venom), سوء نية (pettiness), ضرر (damage, detriment, devilry, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, lesion, mal, mis, prejudice, wrong), خبث (badness, evilness, foxiness, harmfulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, offensiveness, slyness, viciousness, virulence, wickedness, wiliness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | злокачественост (malignity), зловредност (maleficence, malignity), злоба (despite, devilry, grudge, malevolence, malice, malignity, rancor, rancour, spite, spleen, venom, virulence), пагубност. (various references) | |
Czech | zlomyslnost (malevolence, malice, malignity, mischievousness, rancor, spite, viciousness). (various references) | |
Danish | malignitet. (various references) | |
Dutch | kwaadaardigheid. (various references) | |
Finnish | pahanlaatuisuus. (various references) | |
French | malveillance (malevolence, malice, malignity), malignité (malignity). (various references) | |
German | Malignität (malignity), Böswilligkeit (malevolence, malice, maliciousness), Bösartigkeit (ferocity, fierceness, malfeasance, maliciousness, malignity, meanness, mischief, nastiness, perniciousness, sinisterness, viciousness, virulence). (various references) | |
Greek | κακοήθεια (dishonesty, malignity, turpitude, wickedness), μοχθηρία (malice, maliciousness, mischief, virulence). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממאירות, ז"ו יות (malice, wickedness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszindulatúság (malignity, sullenness), rosszindulat (animosity, bitchiness, censoriousness, gall, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mischief, mischievousness, spite, viciousness), ellenségesség (belligerency, malignity). (various references) | |
Italian | malignit (anger, evil, fury, gall, hatefulness, malice, malignity, spite, spitefulness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪質 (bad quality, malignant, vicious), 悪性度 , 悪性 (evil nature, lewdness, licentiousness, malignant, pernicious, virulence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あくしつ (bad quality, malignant, malignant or virulent disease, vicious), あくせいど, あくせい (bad voice, evil speaking, malignant, misgovernment, pernicious, virulence). (various references) | |
Manx | olkys (badness, evilness, iniquity, lousiness, malignity, mischief, mischievousness, moral ill, naughtiness, pravity, viciousness, wickedness), kahngyr (carcinoma). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alignancymay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malignidade (felloe, malice, malinger, virulence, virus), malevolência (malevolent, spite), maldade (badness, enormous, gall bladder, maleficent, malice, naughtiness, perversity, slyness, turpitude, unrighteousness, venom, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing), ruindade (badness, venom, wickedness), falar mal de (backbite, grumble, run down). (various references) | |
Romanian | rea-voinţã (hostility, ill will, malevolence, venom), rãutate (acrimony, archness, bad, badness, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malice, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), caracter dãunãtor. (various references) | |
Russian | злокачественность (malignity), злобность (spitefulness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | malignost, opakost (maleficence). (various references) | |
Spanish | malignidad (malignity, sinisterness). (various references) | |
Swedish | malignitet, malign beskaffenhet, elakhet (cruelty, devilry, deviltry, evilness, malevolence, malice, meanness, naughtiness, spitefulness, unkindness, venom, wickedness). (various references) | |
Turkish | habislik (malignity), habis tümör. (various references) | |
Ukranian | згубність (fatality), злоякісність, злобність (malignity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính thâm hiểm (malignance, malignity), tính ác (maleficence, malignance, malignity, mischievousness, nastiness, unrighteousness), ác tâm (ill-will, maleficence, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignance), ác ý tính ác (malignance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"Malignancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maligancy, malignans, malingancy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "malignancy" (pronounced muli"gnunsē) |
| 6 | -g n u n s ē | pregnancy. |
| 5 | -n u n s ē | tenancy. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-l-m-n-n-y" | |
-1 letter: manacling. | |
-2 letters: canaling, cinnamyl, manganic. | |
-3 letters: anginal, calming, cannily, claying, cymling, lancing, magical, mangily, myalgia, myalgic. | |
-4 letters: agamic, agnail, alanin, amylic, angina, animal, cagily, caiman, calami, camail, caning, cayman, clingy, cyanin, cymlin, gainly, galyac, gamily, glycan, glycin, lacing, lamina, laming, laying, layman, lingam, macing, magian, mainly, malign, maniac, manila, maying, minyan, naming. | |
-5 letters: acing, again, alang, algin, align, aliya, amain, amiga, amnia, amnic, anima, annal, canal, canna, canny, claim, clang, cling, gaily, gamay, gamic, gamin, gayal, ginny, inlay, lagan, lamia, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, liman, linac, linga, lingy, lying, magic, malic, mangy, mania, manic, manly, manna, mayan, mincy, mingy, minny, nancy, nyala. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 69 67 6E 61 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-.. .. --. -. .- -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l i g n a n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0069 0067 006E 0061 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677875738067806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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