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PREMALIGNANT

Specialty Definition: PREMALIGNANT

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Health

A term used to describe a condition that may (or is likely to) become cancer. Also called precancerous. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PREMALIGNANT

Specialty definitions using "PREMALIGNANT": Leukoplakia, OralProstatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PREMALIGNANT

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Books

  • Colorectal Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms, Premalignant State and Its Prevention (Falk Symposium, Vol 109) (reference)

  • Premalignant Conditions of the Gastrointestinal Tract (reference)

  • Premalignant Lesions of the Lower Genital Tract (Clinical Practice of Gynecology, Vol 2, No 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: PREMALIGNANT

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One of the many uses for the laser in medical research is as a light source to detect premalignant and malignant cells in a Pap smear. Shown here are gynecologic cells passing in a stream through the laser beam where each cell is analyzed. Abnormal-appearing cells can be sorted from the rest of the cells and later examined by a pathologist for evidence of cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PREMALIGNANT

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Health

This increased detection and treatment of early-stage cancer or premalignant changes could be consistent with a reduction in breast cancer mortality appearing only after 10 years following the initiation of screening. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PREMALIGNANT

"PREMALIGNANT" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PREMALIGNANT" is used about 16 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PREMALIGNANT

Language Translations for "PREMALIGNANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

præmalign struktur (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

premaligne structuur (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syövän esiasteeksi luokiteltava rakenne (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

French

  

structure prémaligne (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

German

  

prämaligne Struktur (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προκαρκινική υφή (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emalignantpray

   

Spanish

  

estructura premaligna (premalignant structure). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

premalign bildning (premalignant structure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PREMALIGNANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-p-r-t"

-2 letters: impregnant, martingale, parliament, replanting.

-3 letters: alignment, antiglare, emanating, emplaning, galantine, implanter, lamenting, malignant, manganite, marginate, napalming, paltering, parenting, pentagram, perinatal, ptarmigan, reimplant, replating, tampering, trameling, trampling.

-4 letters: aerating, agential, agminate, airplane, alarming, alerting, alginate, altering, anearing, animater, antimale, antirape, argental, emigrant, empaling, enigmata, gantline, geranial, germinal, grapline, integral, interlap, internal, laminate, latening, learning.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-p-r-t"
 

+5 letters: departmentalizing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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