malignant neoplasm

Questions about malignant neoplasm

What does malignant neoplasm mean?

malignant neoplasm means "a tumor that is malignant and tends to spread to other parts of the body".

What is another word for malignant neoplasm?

Close synonyms include malignant tumor, metastatic tumor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malignant neoplasm a common word?

malignant neoplasm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.