| malignant hyperthermia |
a reaction to certain anesthesia gases involving intense muscle contractions and a high fever
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| malignant melanoma |
the most serious type of skin cancer, in which a mole changes shape, darkens, becomes painful, and/or bleeds easily
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| malignancy |
Uncontrolled division and growth of abnormal cells. These cancerous cells replace otherwise normal cells of the body.
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| malignant |
A process that does harm to nearby tissues. Usually synonymous with cancer, a tumor that grows quickly and spreads into other tissues.
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| malignant |
Refers to cells or tumors growing in an uncontrolled fashion. Such growths may spread to and disrupt nearby normal tissue, or reach distant sites via the bloodstream. By definition, cancers are always malignant, and the term "malignancy" implies cancer. See Metastasis.
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