Word
malignant neoplastic disease, n.
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
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freq. cnt.: 15
freq. cnt.: 15
cancer
malignant neoplastic disease
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
cancerous
semantic pointers
hypernym
malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor
hyponym
lymphoma
carcinoma
leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood
sarcoma