noun
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The state of being malignant or diseased.
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A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
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That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
Examples of malignancy in a Sentence
This should be followed up to exclude a malignancy.
The virus was isolated from an adult T cell malignancy.
Patients who have a malignancy are also slow to respond to enzyme treatment.
These lesions have been shown to progress to malignancy in a manor analogous to colonic polyps.
Such lesions should only be referred if there is concern about possible malignancy or significant symptomatology.
Of all of the patients undergoing tonsillectomy, 0.35% had occult malignancy.
They can infiltrate nearby tissues, enter the bloodstream, and metastasize to bones, tissues, and organs far from the original malignancy.
What is more, the reaction to lactic dehydrogenase may be regarded as a metabolic index of malignancy.
In acquired ichthyosis, underlying conditions e.g. Hodgkin's disease or a malignancy must be excluded.
A subset of HPVs infects the female genital tract, to induce cervical lesions that can progress to malignancy in some women.
These include malignancy, illnesses of unknown origin and systemic inflammatory conditions.
The major clinical use of cord blood has been for hematological malignancy, mainly in children.
Peter Brennan's main clinical interests are head and neck malignancy, reconstructive free flap surgery and neck lumps.
Invasion is a defining characteristic of malignancy, as is nuclear pleomorphism and high mitotic activity.
Uterine malignancy that had not been diagnosed at transcervical resection of the endometrium was present at hysterectomy in two women.
Immunohistochemical analysis of retinoblastoma protein expression revealed low levels of expression, but no histopathological signs of malignancy.
In short, CTCL may be a malignancy of T cells stimulated to proliferate against its own tumor antigens.
Most commonly the term refers to the collection and analysis of tissue from a suspected tumor to establish malignancy.
A glucose level below 40 mg/dL is significant and occurs in bacterial and fungal meningitis and in malignancy.
This enzyme is elevated in bacterial and fungal meningitis, malignancy, and subarachnoid hemorrhage.
It helps to regulate the immune system's response to infections or malignancy.
Physical examination and routine x rays may yield enough evidence to diagnose benign bone tumors, but removal of tumor tissue for microscopic analysis (biopsy) is the only sure way to rule out malignancy.
Adults with dermatomyositis over the age of 50 have a 15 percent risk of developing cancer, whereas juvenile dermatomyositis is rarely associated with malignancy.
A secondary malignancy may develop from the one being treated, and that second cancer may need additional chemotherapy or other treatment.
Surgery done to move the testis into the scrotum does not reduce the likelihood of malignancy but allows accessibility of the testes to screen for masses which will allow early treatment.
Normocytic anemia may be caused by decreased production (e.g. malignancy and other causes of bone marrow failure), increased destruction (hemolytic anemia), or blood loss.