Siddhartha Mukherjee

author, physician

Pulitzer Prize-winning physician-author who transforms complex medical science into luminous, polysyllabic narrative in works like "The Emperor of All Maladies."

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  1. n. the quality or condition of being malignant also

    The anatomy of cancer is a story of malignancy.
  2. n. the complete set of DNA instructions in an organism

    The genome is the master blueprint of the cell.
  3. n. the branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease; esp. with the structural and functional changes caused by disease all the conditions; processes; or results of a particular disease any abnormal variation from a sound or proper conditi

    Understanding the pathology is the first step to cure.
  4. n. 1 a change or alteration in form or qualities; 2 an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

    Every mutation tells a story of survival or failure.
  5. adj. giving off or reflecting much light

    The science of medicine is a luminous human endeavor.

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