MALIGNANT TUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malignant tumor mean? 

• MALIGNANT TUMOR (noun)
  The noun MALIGNANT TUMOR has 1 sense:

1. a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALIGNANT TUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malignant neoplasm; malignant tumor; metastatic tumor

Hypernyms ("malignant tumor" is a kind of...):

neoplasm; tumor; tumour (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)

malignance; malignancy ((medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death)

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

carcinosarcoma (a malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed)

cancer; malignant neoplastic disease (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)

angiosarcoma (a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels)

myeloma (a tumor of the bone marrow (usually malignant) composed of cells normally found in bone marrow)

neuroblastoma (malignant tumor containing embryonic nerve cells; usually metastasizes quickly)

neuroepithelioma (malignant tumor of the neuroepithelium)

retinoblastoma (malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells)

 Context examples 

A primary intramedullary high grade malignant tumor in which the neoplastic cells produce osteoid, even if only in small amounts.

(Conventional Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant tumor that arises from the ovary and is characterized by the presence of malignant germ cell components but lacks a teratoma component.

(Ovarian Primitive Germ Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The device's ability to cause damage to genetic material (e.g., leading malignant tumors).

(Device Genotoxic Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

An aggressive malignant tumor arising from trophoblastic cells.

(Choriocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A low to intermediate grade malignant tumor that recapitulates notochord.

(Chordoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An aggressive malignant tumor of melanocytic origin that arises from the cervix.

(Cervical Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A leukemia arising as a result of the mutagenic effect of chemotherapy agents that are used for the treatment of a malignant tumor.

(Chemotherapy-Related Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

The most common malignant tumor associated with this paraneoplastic syndrome is lung carcinoma.

(Paraneoplastic Opsoclonus Ataxia, NCI Thesaurus)

Testing the device's ability to cause damage to genetic material. (e.g., leading to outgrowths — malignant tumors).

(Device Genotoxic Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A malignant tumor composed of melanocytes that does not fall within the above subclasses of melanoma.

(Other Mouse Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)