- malignancy, malignance - (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
--1 is a kind of disease
--1 has parts: cancer cell
--1 has particulars: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor - malignity, malignancy, malignance - quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
--2 is a kind of evil, evilness