Definizione monolingua

malignity

malignity (countable and uncountable; plural malignities)

1. The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 40:

     His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.

2. A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
   • 2005, Jun;106(3):177-80 English abstract of French article ""Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma"" R.L. Abada et al., ""Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma"", Revue de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale

     The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.

Definizione dizionario malignity

malignità

Altri significati:

A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.

The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.