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malignancy

noun as in virulence

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Typically, all malignancies have the so-called “driver mutation”— the cancer’s main trigger caused by a mutated gene.

That’s the reason O’Kane participates in the PASS-01 trial—it will give doctors a better view into the exact specifics of their patients’ malignancies.

When the immune system is compromised, or the cancer evolves some kind of special mutation that makes them resistant to our immune system, you can end up with a malignancy.

And it seemed that alcohol and tobacco worked together in toxic synergy to produce the malignancy.

Those whose intentions were strictly creditable, by some malignancy of fate, possessed no influence whatever.

The great purple veins stood out on his forehead, and his features were distorted with malignancy.

Few would accuse a workman of malignancy who cleanses from filth the surface of a noble statue.

Even the dogs, even they were hostile to us and hurled themselves at us with a peculiar malignancy.

About midsummer the disease betrayed its malignancy by the eruption of whelks and spots.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to malignancy, such as: hatred, malevolence, malice, malignity, and virulence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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