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单词 malignant
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Definition of malignant in English:

malignant

adjective məˈlɪɡnəntməˈlɪɡnənt
  • 1Evil in nature or effect; malevolent.

    in the hands of malignant fate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What evil, malignant Commie menace could be behind this predicament?
    • Science in the service of multi - national corporations, becomes malignant rather than benign.
    • To me, the most striking thing about both articles is the sheer, malignant hatred that shines through in each.
    • A more malignant expression of the social crisis is recorded in the suicide rate.
    • By the very nature of what it is, Empires are malignant, not benign though they cloak this malignancy with shallow kindness.
    • But a series of malignant twists of fate sour his life.
    • In the most malignant cases, it leads to the rhetoric of genocide.
    • Too often the malignant evil in society shows up in how we treat our children.
    • But nothing in law or common sense justifies these continued ignorant, racist or malignant attacks on genuine refugees.
    • There was evidence of deeper and more malignant dry-rot.
    • We can comment on the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues.
    • Yes, the two parties are equivalently malignant this way.
    • This is only the tip of one big malignant iceberg.
    • The root cause is not so much the drugs trade, as the malignant rat-like nature of the human race.
    • In combination, they've been malignant so many times before.
    • The stable food, the potato rotted from the land as the first strains of malignant blight struck, and there was nothing left to eat.
    • In my beginnings as a prison activist, I saw the industry of locking people up, as a malignant form of interdisciplinary activity.
    • What lies behind the Tory claim is a malignant xenophobia.
    • Just as he begins to recover, an old affair resurfaces within the marriage of Paul's parents and becomes aggressively malignant.
    • The malignant effects of chronic pain in children are multifactorial and relatively unyielding without treatment.
    Synonyms
    spiteful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malign, evil-intentioned, baleful, full of hate, vicious, nasty, poisonous, venomous, acrimonious, rancorous, splenetic, cruel
  • 2(of a disease) very virulent or infectious.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is also concern over infective and malignant complications.
    • Biological viruses also ' steal ' virulence genes from other viruses and become more malignant.
    • During one, my nurse college mentioned she had seen two cases of malignant hyperthermia.
    • In view of the malignant nature of the condition this delay could have been life threatening.
    • Patients with severe neutropenia with fever or signs of infection and those with evidence of malignant disease should be hospitalized.
    • The term refers to any of a group of malignant diseases of the bone marrow and other bone forming organs.
    • The malignant course of the disease is over, and it is now progressing more moderately.
    • Proper diagnosis and supervision of treatment for Britain's most common malignant disease should not be beyond the resources of our National Health Service.
    • Visual impairment, neurological disorder, and malignant disease were all independently associated with suicide in elderly people
    • But neither of these processes is suitable for patients with infection or malignant disease.
    • Destruction of the proteins essentially cripples p53 and opens the door to malignant transformation.
    • There is a malignant form of coronary disease among people of Asian origin.
    • Primary care clinicians need to be able to discriminate which patients within a relatively unselected population have a higher likelihood of malignant disease.
    • In the end they ruled out only such serious illnesses as active or malignant disease which the doctor thought would totally wreck the child's chance of a healthy life.
    • Cardiac cachexia may mimic the cachexia seen in patients with disseminated malignant disease.
    • Leon and Davey-Smith now show how a childhood infection may influence the epidemiology of malignant disease several decades later.
    • Malignant hyperthermia is not the only inherited disorder associated with faulty calcium signalling.
    • In April of 1677 Barrow travelled to London where he contracted malignant fever.
    • Chemical pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion and pneumothorax.
    Synonyms
    virulent, infectious, invasive, uncontrollable, dangerous, harmful, pernicious
    deadly, fatal, life-threatening, lethal, terminal, incurable
    1. 2.1 (of a tumour) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous.
      Contrasted with benign
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Patients who had previously received conjugated estrogens or who had cancer with low malignant potential were excluded from the study.
      • Asbestosis is frequently accompanied by malignant tumors, such as lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma.
      • Malignant melanoma is the least common yet most dangerous form of skin cancer.
      • She died of overwhelming infection 9 months after the initial diagnosis of malignant lymphoma.
      • During chemotherapy, he learned there also were two malignant lesions on his brain.
      • Radioactive implants appear to be a very effective method of treating highly malignant brain tumors.
      • The primary reason to investigate a renal mass is to exclude a malignant neoplasm.
      • Another implication of a linear growth regime is that the most malignant cells should be located at the tumor border.
      • Glioblastoma is a rapidly growing malignant brain tumour and usually has a fatal outcome.
      • In addition, 4 of the 50 tumors were found to be histologically malignant.
      • We describe a case of a highly malignant primary liver tumor in an elderly woman.
      • The dangers of sun worshipping, such as malignant melanoma and accelerated ageing, are well known.
      • He immediately diagnosed a small rectal lesion, which appeared clinically to be malignant.
      • To put it in plain English, chemotherapy damages normal cells as well as malignant ones.
      • He died of malignant mesothelioma of the right lung caused by exposure to asbestos.
      • In addition, the ability to identify potentially malignant lesions varies with physician training.
      • Nearly everyone has pigmented moles, but only one in a million becomes malignant.
      • I will address the experimental treatments for the most malignant brain tumors.
      • The difference between malignant and benign tumours is that malignant tumours have the ability to invade surrounding areas.
      • Lymph node infarction is followed by malignant lymphoma in some but not all patients.
      Synonyms
      cancerous, non-benign, metastatic

Derivatives

  • malignantly

  • adverb məˈlɪɡnəntliməˈlɪɡnəntli
    • But ethics committees can be used malignantly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Smiling malignantly, he gave a casual tip of his hat.
      • He dropped the fake pout and laughed malignantly.
      • As a woman, I would regard such a conception as an invasion of my body by a malignantly multiplying mass of cells.
      • As I lay tossing and turning in my bed the words echoed at me again and again malignantly.

Origin

Mid 16th century (also in the sense 'likely to rebel against God or authority'): from late Latin malignant- 'contriving maliciously', from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe Royalist sympathizers during the English Civil War.

Rhymes

benignant, indignant
 
 

Definition of malignant in US English:

malignant

adjectiveməˈliɡnəntməˈlɪɡnənt
  • 1Malevolent.

    in the hands of malignant fate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The stable food, the potato rotted from the land as the first strains of malignant blight struck, and there was nothing left to eat.
    • In combination, they've been malignant so many times before.
    • Just as he begins to recover, an old affair resurfaces within the marriage of Paul's parents and becomes aggressively malignant.
    • There was evidence of deeper and more malignant dry-rot.
    • The malignant effects of chronic pain in children are multifactorial and relatively unyielding without treatment.
    • A more malignant expression of the social crisis is recorded in the suicide rate.
    • Science in the service of multi - national corporations, becomes malignant rather than benign.
    • The root cause is not so much the drugs trade, as the malignant rat-like nature of the human race.
    • We can comment on the malignant horde of media hounds claiming to speak for Michael on this and many other issues.
    • What lies behind the Tory claim is a malignant xenophobia.
    • Yes, the two parties are equivalently malignant this way.
    • In the most malignant cases, it leads to the rhetoric of genocide.
    • By the very nature of what it is, Empires are malignant, not benign though they cloak this malignancy with shallow kindness.
    • What evil, malignant Commie menace could be behind this predicament?
    • To me, the most striking thing about both articles is the sheer, malignant hatred that shines through in each.
    • But a series of malignant twists of fate sour his life.
    • In my beginnings as a prison activist, I saw the industry of locking people up, as a malignant form of interdisciplinary activity.
    • This is only the tip of one big malignant iceberg.
    • Too often the malignant evil in society shows up in how we treat our children.
    • But nothing in law or common sense justifies these continued ignorant, racist or malignant attacks on genuine refugees.
    Synonyms
    spiteful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malign, evil-intentioned, baleful, full of hate, vicious, nasty, poisonous, venomous, acrimonious, rancorous, splenetic, cruel
  • 2(of a disease) very virulent or infectious.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is a malignant form of coronary disease among people of Asian origin.
    • In April of 1677 Barrow travelled to London where he contracted malignant fever.
    • Primary care clinicians need to be able to discriminate which patients within a relatively unselected population have a higher likelihood of malignant disease.
    • Cardiac cachexia may mimic the cachexia seen in patients with disseminated malignant disease.
    • Biological viruses also ' steal ' virulence genes from other viruses and become more malignant.
    • In the end they ruled out only such serious illnesses as active or malignant disease which the doctor thought would totally wreck the child's chance of a healthy life.
    • Malignant hyperthermia is not the only inherited disorder associated with faulty calcium signalling.
    • The term refers to any of a group of malignant diseases of the bone marrow and other bone forming organs.
    • Destruction of the proteins essentially cripples p53 and opens the door to malignant transformation.
    • During one, my nurse college mentioned she had seen two cases of malignant hyperthermia.
    • But neither of these processes is suitable for patients with infection or malignant disease.
    • Leon and Davey-Smith now show how a childhood infection may influence the epidemiology of malignant disease several decades later.
    • The malignant course of the disease is over, and it is now progressing more moderately.
    • Proper diagnosis and supervision of treatment for Britain's most common malignant disease should not be beyond the resources of our National Health Service.
    • Chemical pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion and pneumothorax.
    • Patients with severe neutropenia with fever or signs of infection and those with evidence of malignant disease should be hospitalized.
    • There is also concern over infective and malignant complications.
    • Visual impairment, neurological disorder, and malignant disease were all independently associated with suicide in elderly people
    • In view of the malignant nature of the condition this delay could have been life threatening.
    Synonyms
    virulent, infectious, invasive, uncontrollable, dangerous, harmful, pernicious
    1. 2.1 (of a tumor) tending to invade normal tissue or to recur after removal; cancerous.
      Contrasted with benign
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He immediately diagnosed a small rectal lesion, which appeared clinically to be malignant.
      • Nearly everyone has pigmented moles, but only one in a million becomes malignant.
      • Asbestosis is frequently accompanied by malignant tumors, such as lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma.
      • In addition, 4 of the 50 tumors were found to be histologically malignant.
      • We describe a case of a highly malignant primary liver tumor in an elderly woman.
      • Lymph node infarction is followed by malignant lymphoma in some but not all patients.
      • The difference between malignant and benign tumours is that malignant tumours have the ability to invade surrounding areas.
      • The dangers of sun worshipping, such as malignant melanoma and accelerated ageing, are well known.
      • The primary reason to investigate a renal mass is to exclude a malignant neoplasm.
      • Glioblastoma is a rapidly growing malignant brain tumour and usually has a fatal outcome.
      • In addition, the ability to identify potentially malignant lesions varies with physician training.
      • To put it in plain English, chemotherapy damages normal cells as well as malignant ones.
      • She died of overwhelming infection 9 months after the initial diagnosis of malignant lymphoma.
      • He died of malignant mesothelioma of the right lung caused by exposure to asbestos.
      • I will address the experimental treatments for the most malignant brain tumors.
      • Patients who had previously received conjugated estrogens or who had cancer with low malignant potential were excluded from the study.
      • Radioactive implants appear to be a very effective method of treating highly malignant brain tumors.
      • During chemotherapy, he learned there also were two malignant lesions on his brain.
      • Another implication of a linear growth regime is that the most malignant cells should be located at the tumor border.
      • Malignant melanoma is the least common yet most dangerous form of skin cancer.
      Synonyms
      cancerous, non-benign, metastatic

Origin

Mid 16th century (also in the sense ‘likely to rebel against God or authority’): from late Latin malignant- ‘contriving maliciously’, from the verb malignare. The term was used in its early sense to describe Royalist sympathizers during the English Civil War.

 
 
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