MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malignant neoplastic disease mean? 

• MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE (noun)
  The noun MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

  Familiarity information: MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cancer; malignant neoplastic disease

Hypernyms ("malignant neoplastic disease" is a kind of...):

malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor (a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malignant neoplastic disease"):

lymphoma (a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer)

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia (malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer)

sarcoma (a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer)