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benign | American Dictionary

benign
adjective
us/bɪˈnɑɪn/
pleasant and kind; not harmful or severe:
a benign smile
His humor was benign, never cruel or hurtful.
medical (of a disease or tissue growing because of a disease) not likely to result in death:
a benign tumor

Examples of benign

benign
Indeed, reform creates epistemic opportunities for further reform, in a sort of benign cycle intervention-knowledge-intervention.
Although a successful life requires a benign environment, how well people live is largely their own responsibility.
At one level, their use of the law of libel seems to bear out this benign conclusion.
Ecological factors in schistosome transmission, and an environmentally benign method for controlling snails in a recreational lake with a record of schistosome dermatitis.
The postnatal form of varicella is usually acquired between the ages of 5 and 9 years and generally has a benign clinical course.
In industrialized countries, the infection usually is more benign, but it claims a large amount of expensive health-care resources [1-5].
An awareness of orf is important since its course is benign and does not require any specific treatment.
Cross-reactive cell-mediated immunity could potentially keep the oncogenic non-vaccine types under control due to naturally occurring boosting by the benign non-vaccine included types [26].
The posthuman world could be one of benign slavery rather than enhanced freedom or human dignity.
The former refers to whether the hassle is perceived as benign or harmful.
We therefore proposed that a brief, nurse-delivered intervention would be more effective than usual care in reducing disability in patients presenting with benign palpitation.
Often present are lengthy descriptions of woods, hills, rivers, meadows - descriptions in which nature is depicted as an inventory of benign attributes.
One could not assume that the purposes of a railroad association were benign.
He points out that, in contrast, the weather reports found in the annals from the eighth century are relatively benign.
Although the tumor is benign, resection is indicated because its bulk may cause cardiac dysfunction or sudden death.
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