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undifferentiated abdominal malignancy(medicine)

malignancy (iou)



malignancy noun. E17.
[from MALIGNANT: see -ANCY.]
Malign or baleful character; great injuriousness. E17.
Disaffection to constituted authority, obsolete exc. Hist. (derog.) sympathy with the royalist cause during the English civil war. M17.
Malignant or intensely malevolent disposition; envenomed hostility; desire to inflict injury or suffering. M17.
An instance of malignancy; a malignant quality. M17.
Medicine. Malignant quality, now esp. of a cancer or tumour (cf. MALIGNANT adjective 2). L17.
b. A malignant tumour. M20.