Malignancy vs Tumor - What's the difference?
malignancy | tumor |
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
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles
, 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.}}
(oncology, pathology) An abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.
As nouns the difference between malignancy and tumor
is that malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased while tumor is an abnormal growth; differential diagnosis includes abscess, metaplasia, and neoplasia.malignancy
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Noun
(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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