The Collaborative International Dictionary
malignant tumor \malignant tumor\ n. (Med.), Same as malignancy[4].
Syn: malignancy, malignance, malignant tumor, metastatic tumor.
WordNet
n. a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body [syn: malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor]
Usage examples of "malignant tumor".
He knew that if the diagnosis were confirmed it would mean that Vivian had a virulent, malignant tumor which could spread, and perhaps already had, elsewhere in her body.
Galen, a physician of Roman times, described a malignant tumor of the breast which distended nearby veins until the whole figure looked like a crab with its legs jutting out in all directions.
I went into that house with a malignant tumor, and when I came out again the tumor had gone.
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a matethey would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.
She had it in the lymph nodes in her neck and she had a malignant tumor in her right lung which was suffocating her.
He was released early when prison doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his right lung.
If it's not absorbed, it forms a malignant tumor, just as it did with her.
After he was shot and killed by police, an autopsy revealed a malignant tumor in the area of the brain associated with rage.
He looked Daniels up and down as though Barney were a malignant tumor.