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Noun: malignance
  1. (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
    - malignancy
     
  2. Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
    - malignity, malignancy

Derived forms: malignances

See also: malign

Type of: disease, evil, evilness

Antonym: benignancy

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Malian
malic acid
malice
malice aforethought
malicious
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malicious mischief
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malignant anaemia
malignant anemia
malignant hepatoma
malignant hypertension
malignant hyperthermia
malignant melanoma
malignant neoplasm
malignant neoplastic disease