No one ever wants to read the word "malignant" unless you're reading a Charles Dickens novel about an evil landlord, but "benign" and "majority" are two words that go well together.
I never wanted my name and the word "malignant" mentioned in the same sentence, yet "low" was certainly better than "high" and "potential" more reassuring than actual.
An earlier version used the word "maligned" where "malignant" was meant.
When the malignant, often libellous words of battling attorneys are lifted out of the heated context of the trial and set in cold type, a new, more exquisite torture is suffered by the object of their abuse — who now stands exposed to the world's abuse.
The most important element in the diagnostic categorisation of complex renal cysts is to be able to differentiate between benign and possibly malignant lesions in other words to identify (1) which lesions require surgical intervention, (2) which can be safely followed by imaging and (3) which are unequivocally benign and need no surgical intervention or imaging follow-up.
Though the conversation's details never registered, words like "malignant" and "melanoma" did lodge in my temporal lobe.
We searched for cases using the key words "neuroleptic malignant syndrome", "NMS", and "high CK".
· Historian and novelist Robert Irwin did not mince words when passing judgment on Edward Said's 1978 tome, Orientalism: "His book stinks"... "A book of malignant charlatanry"... "Outright misrepresentations"... "Said claimed to be able to read German - I don't believe him"... "He was no historian".
To search the literatures, we used key words of intrahepatic, malignant, and mesothelioma and found 12 case reports which have described primary intrahepatic malignant mesothelioma [2 12] (Table 1).
With the U.S. population at 324 million, there will be 106.3 million of us who will have a mom, sister, daughter or wife hear those dreaded words: "it's malignant".
