Semi-malignant
adjective
1.
disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
2.
very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect.
3.
Pathology.
tending to produce death, as bubonic plague.
(of a tumor) characterized by uncontrolled growth; cancerous, invasive, or metastatic.
adjective
1.
having or showing desire to harm others
2.
tending to cause great harm; injurious
3.
(pathol) (of a tumour) uncontrollable or resistant to therapy; rapidly spreading
noun
4.
(history) (in the English Civil War) a Parliamentarian term for a royalist (sense 1)
malignant ma·lig·nant (mə-lĭg’nənt)
adj.
Threatening to life, as a disease; virulent.
Tending to metastasize; cancerous. Used of a tumor.
malignant
(mə-lĭg’nənt)
Tending to have a destructive clinical course, as a malignant illness.
Relating to cancer cells that are invasive and tend to metastasize. Malignant tumor cells are histologically more primitive than normal tissue. Compare benign.
malignant definition
A descriptive term for things or conditions that threaten life or well-being. Malignant is the opposite of benign.
Note: The term malignant is used in describing cancerous tumors (see cancer) because such growths are a threat to the health of the individual.
Note: The term is often used in a general way to denote something that is both destructive and fast growing: “The malignant growth of the suburbs is destroying the landscape.”
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