noun
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A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
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A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
adjective
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Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
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malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection
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Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
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a malignant tumor
Examples of malignant in a Sentence
In this way they give rise to a malignant new growth.
A malignant attitude will turn others away from friendship
Note that the malignant cells are invading and destroying the muscle fibres of the heart.
Amber hoped that her son did not show his malignant side at his new school.
The evil queen was portrayed by the author as malignant and powerful.
Malignant tumors are difficult to eradicate because they canspread uncontrollably.
I desperately hoped that the cancerous tumor was not malignant.
Malaria is widely prevalent, and in some years, after a wet spring, assumes a malignant character.
Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of the cathedral of Salisbury, but of this preferment he was soon deprived as a "malignant."
Some of them were benevolent, others malignant.
Strong sulphuric acid is occasionally used as a caustic to venereal sores, warts and malignant growths.
Although PDT is licensed in several countries for palliation of malignant dysphagia, it yet has to prove itself against laser.
This is a malignant neoplasm of glandular epithelium invading down into muscle.
The maintenance of tissue homeostasis is also aided by apoptosis, which acts to remove damaged, aged, autoimmune or malignant cells.
Most things that cause high blood pressure can occasionally cause malignant hypertension.
Increasing popularity of oversees holidays is partly blamed for an alarming rise in malignant melanoma incidence.
A cancer is the commonly used term for a malignant neoplasm.
In the course of a visit which he made to Innocent in this year, the bishop laid before the pope and cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the Church to the malignant influence of the Curia.
In recent years the successful experimental transplantation of new growths, occurring sporadically in white mice and rats, into animals of the same species, has thrown a fresh light on all the features of malignant growths.
Tumours of the Liver may be innocent or malignant.
However, so far it has not been proven by sequence analysis that the cultured T cells truly represent the malignant cells.
It probably takes fifteen or more years before a normal cervix gradually becomes malignant.
Given such prodigious credulity, can anyone doubt that human minds are ripe for malignant infection?
It was an odious face crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-grey eyes and white eyelashes.
Hysterectomy was performed and the histopathology showed residual hyperplasia only the tissue that had become malignant had been removed by the curettage.
But all is not finished with the passage of the soul to the land of the dead; the soul may return to avenge its death by helping to discover the murderer, or to wreak vengeance for itself; there is a widespread belief that those who die a violent death become malignant spirits and endanger the lives of those who come near the haunted spot; the woman who dies in child-birth becomes a pontianak, and threatens the life of human beings; and man resorts to magical or religious means of repelling his spiritual dangers.
This may occur in syndromes such as malignant hyperpyrexia, tho a metabolic acidosis usually predominates.
Between one in 2,000 and one in 10,000 people are at risk of developing malignant hyperthermia as a reaction to some commonly used anesthetics.
In animal studies Esmeron was shown not to be a triggering factor for malignant hyperthermia.
The ' malignant leprosy ' is the contamination by the outside world which results from education with the Gentiles.
Some potentially malignant lesions can be managed by regular review, with or without medical treatment.
There are also areas in Latin America, Asia, and Oceania, where malignant malaria still occurs.
The implanted tumors develop into large, highly malignant brain tumors in the puppies.
These growths are often called tumors but are usually not malignant or cancer.
The effects of asbestos related illness particularly malignant mesothelioma which is a terminal illness is obviously devastating upon the individual and their family.
The form originating from collecting ducts is highly infrequent and very malignant with the five-year survival in 20% only.
It is occasionally malignant with local recurrence and pulmonary spread.
A few in every 1,000 of these may become malignant.
We came to the conclusion that in diagnosing patients with abnormal uterine cavity, MR imaging may help differentiate malignant from benign disorders.
Sometimes a tumor is called malignant when it is a cancer, but malignant hypertension is not cancer.
Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.
Skin cancer The most serious form of skin cancer is called malignant melanoma.
Most people with malignant mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they breathed asbestos.
For all studied cancers we found genes specifically methylated in malignant cells.
A melanoma can arise within an existing mole by the melanocytes becoming malignant or cancerous.
To our knowledge, a malignant counterpart of intraductal papilloma has not been described previously.
To address this aspect we study the interactions of Anopheles mosquitoes and plasmodium parasites, the agent of malignant malaria.
Professor Junia V. Melo has a longstanding interest in the molecular mechanisms underlying the malignant phenotype of CML.
All malignant salivary gland tumors expressed similar intense HA in tumor stroma.
Prognosis in patients with malignant neoplasms of the palatine tonsil were better in comparison with tongue cancer.