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Malignant vs Choriocarcinoma - What's the difference?

malignant | choriocarcinoma |

As nouns the difference between malignant and choriocarcinoma

is that malignant is while choriocarcinoma is (pathology) a malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.

As an adjective malignant

is harmful, malevolent, injurious.

malignant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
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  • (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
    • malignant diphtheria
    a malignant tumor

    Antonyms

    * (medicine) benign

    Related terms

    * nonmalignant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
    • As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants
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    choriocarcinoma

    English

    (wikipedia choriocarcinoma)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology) A malignant, trophoblastic cancer, usually of the placenta.
  • *2010 , (Siddhartha Mukherjee), The Emperor of all Maladies , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 135:
  • *:When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.