malignancy

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Meaning

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

Unfavorableness; evil nature.

Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

The state of being a malignant.

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By the end of the Second World War, every American past the age of 40 had been subjected to some 25 years of anti-communist radiation, the average incubation period needed to produce a malignancy. Anti-communism had developed a life of its own. William Blum

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow. Ken Livingstone

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us. Marianne Williamson

Among the results achieved by Ehrlich and his research colleagues was the insight that when tumors are cultivated by transplanting tumor cells, their malignancy increases from generation to generation. Source: Internet

Commonly, non-medical removal of the clitoris is performed during female genital mutilation (FGM). citation Medical uses Malignancies A clitoridectomy is often done to remove malignancy or necrosis of the clitoris. Source: Internet

Especially in mosaic cases of Turner syndrome that contains Y-chromosome (e.g. 45,X/46,XY) due to the risk of development of ovarian malignancy (most common is gonadoblastoma) gonadectomy is recommended. Source: Internet

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