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Carcinoma vs Malignancy - What's the difference?

carcinoma | malignancy |

As nouns the difference between carcinoma and malignancy

is that carcinoma is (oncology) an invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body while malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased.

carcinoma

English

Noun

(wikipedia carcinoma) (en-noun)
  • (oncology) An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.

    • Anagrams

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    malignancy

    English

    Noun

    (malignancies)
  • The state of being malignant or diseased.
  • A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
  • That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles citation
    • , passage=A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.}}

    Antonyms

    * benignancy