malignancy

noun/məˈlɪɡnənsi/

Frequency rank: #17,901 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A cancerous growth or the quality of being harmful and likely to cause death.

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Example sentence

Doctors confirmed the tumor was a confirmed malignancy after reviewing the biopsy results.

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