malignant : Idioms & Phrases

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malignant anaemia

  • noun a chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)
    pernicious anemia; pernicious anaemia; malignant anaemia.
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malignant anemia

  • noun a chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)
    pernicious anemia; pernicious anaemia; malignant anaemia.
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malignant hepatoma

  • noun carcinoma of the liver
    hepatoma; hepatocarcinoma; hepatocellular carcinoma.
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malignant hypertension

  • noun severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain
    • malignant hypertension is the most lethal form of hypertension
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malignant hyperthermia

  • noun hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity
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malignant melanoma

  • noun any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes
    melanoma.
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malignant neoplasm

  • noun a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body
    metastatic tumor; malignant neoplasm.
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malignant neoplastic disease

  • noun any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream
    cancer.
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malignant neuroma

  • noun a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue
    neurosarcoma.
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Malignant pustule

  • noun a form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal
    cutaneous anthrax.
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  • (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.
Webster 1913

malignant tumor

  • noun a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body
    metastatic tumor; malignant neoplasm.
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