| Uterine fibroids are benign tumours developing from the smooth muscles of the uterine wall which can grow at times to as large as 15 cm or more. |
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| Epidemic pleurodynia also is called Bornholm disease, Sylvest's disease, devil's grip and epidemic benign dry pleurisy. |
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| I do not think there are any good evidential or other reasons for belief in a supreme deity, much less a benign and all-powerful one. |
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| New alliances are emerging that neither politically nor militarily may be benign to the United States. |
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| Beta blockers may be more benign pharmacologically than anabolic steroids, but the message is the same. |
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| Wedge biopsy of the lesion showed benign spindle cells arranged in a whorled pattern. |
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| Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness. |
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| This condition often is associated with streptococcal or staphylococcal infections and sometimes presents as a benign puncture. |
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| But whatever way it happened, the benign imperialism of the neocons would crash with the dollar. |
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| The case centred around pleural plaques, a benign condition which causes scarring to the lung lining and which is caused by exposure to asbestos. |
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| When you deal with a tumor, even a benign tumor, sometimes it's better to cut it out with clean margins, do what's called an oncologic surgery. |
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| What is clear from our history is the importance, the absolute crucialness, of the heroic individual or the benign obsessive. |
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| Homogeneous echotexture and sharp margins without invasion of the surroundings are features suggesting a benign character. |
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| His benign nihilism seems only logical within a society consumed by conflicting and destructive beliefs. |
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| The monarchy itself will increasingly suffer from this politics of benign neglect. |
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| In contrast to those of the large bowel, benign villous adenomas of the urinary tract are rare. |
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| About 70 women with benign fibroids had their uteruses removed without first trying drugs or other treatments that could have been effective. |
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| Nucleolar margination was present in 132 cases of cancer and 7 benign cases. |
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| The tumor is usually benign and remains histologically quiescent for a long period of time. |
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| Cavernous hemangiomas are benign vascular tumors most commonly seen in the head and neck region in childhood. |
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| Late syphilis may take the forms of late benign syphilis, cardiovascular syphilis and neurosyphilitic disease. |
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| The era of the privately-run family dynasties in Australian media is over, and the era of benign governance of the ABC is over. |
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| What's more, most tumors start out as polyps, or benign growths, in the colon. |
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| If a trust is placed under pressure to operate on ingrowing toenails and benign warts within a five-week period, something has to give. |
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| Rosetta will leave the benign environment of near-Earth space to the dark, frigid regions beyond the asteroid belt. |
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| In one of her last paintings, Kahlo depicts herself seated contemplatively beneath an enormous portrait of a benign and fatherly Stalin. |
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| It is currently believed that most colorectal carcinomas start as benign adenomas that undergo malignant transformation into adenocarcinoma. |
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| Hepatic adenomas are benign tumors composed entirely of hepatocytes and the appropriate supporting connective tissue framework. |
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| Also common is torus palatinus, a slow growing, asymptomatic, benign bony lump in the midline of the palate. |
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| Lipomas, hemangiomas, neuromas, and fibromas are benign neoplasms that occur in the neck. |
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| Firstly, patients who develop significant symptoms with testing but do not develop nystagmus do not have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. |
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| We report on 15 patients in whom benign sleep myoclonus was initially mistaken for epilepsy. |
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| Colonoscopy revealed diverticulitis and several benign polyps, which were excised. |
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| Euphemisms are a quick fix for a debate context, but they breed distrust of even the most benign ideas. |
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| Its benign silhouette squats against the southern sky like some fat Buddha. |
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| Most breast tenderness that comes and goes with the period is due to benign fibrocystic disease and should not be a cause for concern. |
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| Years of benign neglect on the part of her parents are followed by an intense self-serving attention that masquerades as love. |
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| The volume of meltwater dashing down from the glaciers had transformed normally benign streams into charging torrents that demanded respect. |
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| Other benign conditions resulting in a scrotal mass, such as testicular torsion, spermatocele, varicocele, or tuberculosis, must be ruled out. |
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| One would like to think humans are benign but it would seem we're brutish, which is why I'm interested in literature around that. |
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| Ultrasound techniques classify nodules as solid or cystic in the belief that solid lesions might be malignant and cystic lesions benign. |
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| Thus neither radionuclide scans nor ultrasound reliably distinguish benign from malignant disease. |
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| She seems completely benign as she chats maternally with the teenager about his studies. |
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| The cytology was helpful in distinguishing benign from malignant pancreatic frozen section. |
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| Without ridiculing the poet, he gently suggests Mrs Yeats must have been manipulating the spiritual dialogues for her own benign purposes. |
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| Wordsworth likes to take words from a context that is dreadful and render them benign. |
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| Sixteen cervical lymph nodes with metastasis of oral cancer and 20 benign lymph nodes were studied. |
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| We still consider this a benign tumor because no endodermal sinus components were evident. |
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| In contrast, benign conditions caused the majority of small intestinal intussusceptions. |
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| These are called idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis and are absolutely benign and represent an ageing change in the skin. |
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| To Rich, his brother suddenly appeared as some benign leader, the merciful father taking his excitable daughters on holiday. |
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| A benign meningioma was completely excised after laminectomy, and she is making a good recovery. |
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| He was carrying a plastic shopping bag and had a fairly benign, but vacant, expression on his face. |
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| A benign interpretation is that financial markets now have unbounded faith in central bankers to keep inflation down in the longer term. |
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| And the polls suggest that the benign effects of increased government spending have at last been discerned by the electorate. |
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| Recurrence of this benign but often malodorous condition is prevented by skin care with emollients. |
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| This type of insulation is considered the most benign from an indoor air quality standpoint. |
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| I was met at the door by a small, benign looking lady in a slightly grubby white coat. |
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| Fibrosarcoma of the ovary is a rare tumor that is considered to arise de novo or secondary to benign fibromatous tumors. |
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| Often called the silent killer, colon cancer is believed to begin when polyps or small benign growths evolve into cancer. |
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| Which road to industrialisation has been victimless, and undertaken under a benign system of civil liberties and human rights? |
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| Desmoplastic fibroma is generally classified as a benign tumor and has not been shown to metastasize. |
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| Sure, I've tried to live a benign life, putting my shoulder to the wheel for peace. |
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| There are benign breast tumors called fibroadenomas, which are part of the fibrocystic tendencies. |
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| A portion of the cystic mass showed benign bladder smooth muscle and serosa focally adhered to the outer cyst wall. |
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| The laser can also provide relief for symptoms caused by benign airway tumors such as hamartomas, papillomas, polyps, and angiomas. |
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| Cortical tubers, or benign potato-like growths, appear along the gyri and sulci in the brain. |
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| Plantar fibromatosis is a rare, benign neoplasm of the plantar aponeurosis. |
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| One of the commonest reasons for undertaking a biopsy is to establish whether a tumour is malignant or benign. |
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| The knee is the most common joint involved in both benign and malignant tumors. |
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| Both benign and malignant tumors showed ulceration of the overlying mucosa. |
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| Malignant tumours are the real cancers and they behave quite differently from benign tumours. |
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| A benign glomus tumor surrounding a malignant area is found in about half of the cases. |
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| To all but the ruling oligarchy in China, Falun Gong looks like any other of countless sects and groups, benign and unthreatening. |
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| Water is a benign, warm, and welcoming presence that relieves the senses from the harshness of the sun and offers sanctuary. |
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| The stromal component, however, typically appears benign and predominantly consists of interlacing bundles of smooth muscle. |
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| The initial impressions were mostly benign lesions, including lipoma or fibroma. |
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| Chondroid lipoma is a rare, benign variant of lipomatous tumor that can mimic soft tissue sarcomas. |
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| Because lipomas are almost always benign, they usually do not need treatment. |
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| As benign and pastoral as this scene might appear, areas of virga can produce 65-knot columns of downward tumbling air mass. |
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| In this study, most benign tumoral lesions were categorized as fibroadenomas and adenomas. |
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| The benign, old Munshi sums up the topic with a short, wry remark, a telling commentary on the state of affairs. |
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| The fact that this has pencil thin walls, is anechoic, and shows through transmission shows that this is a benign cyst. |
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| The benign neglect that they seem to be going in for at the moment is, in my view, absolutely outrageous. |
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| The purposes of electrosurgery are to destroy benign and malignant lesions, control bleeding, and cut or excise tissue. |
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| Molluscum contagiosum and warts are benign epidermal eruptions that result from viral infections of the skin. |
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| Cutaneous viral warts are discrete benign epithelial proliferations caused by the human papilloma virus. |
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| In the world he describes here, the single controlling company is benign, in no sense an evil, robber-baron monopoliser. |
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| In some cases, public safety will demand a benign destruct mode for the technology. |
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| Colonization also destroyed environmentally benign ways of life that were integral to African culture. |
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| She also thinks that joshing about stature is probably considered to be more benign than, say, pointing out avoirdupois. |
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| Most of you probably view them as benign creatures of great beauty, those wondrous entities into which ugly ducklings grow. |
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| Osteoid osteoma is a benign tumor containing osteoid in a stroma of loose vascular connective tissue. |
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| The study shows that the clinical course of herpes zoster is relatively benign and that postherpetic neuralgia rarely affects daily life. |
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| Of course, few people are mad or vicious, but we are inclined to see society and the state as more benign than they are. |
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| The treatment for teratomas, whether benign or malignant, is resection as the tumor may grow to impinge on adjacent structures. |
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| In 1796, Jenner began to infect people first with the far more benign cowpox and then with smallpox. |
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| Despite the 2000 withdrawal, Scotchgard is back on the market after reformulation to a more environmentally benign fluorine-based chemistry. |
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| The differential diagnosis includes lymphoma, granulomatous infections, benign vascular tumors, and metastatic cancer. |
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| Although patients with pain may request opiate analgesics, it is best to emphasize the benign treatments mentioned previously. |
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| But then maybe I only think that because I believe they'd be benign and unformed stirrings, augmenting my life and not upheaving it. |
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| The medical student learned about hand, foot and mouth disease, which is a benign illness caused by Coxsackie virus. |
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| They're a picture of teenage mateyness, and it's this apparently benign gang mentality that distinguishes them from the rest of their genre. |
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| Common benign lesions that mimic melanoma include seborrheic keratoses, benign acquired nevi and solar lentigenes. |
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| A biopsy should be done of unilaterally enlarged glands, because in about 80 per cent of cases, these masses will be benign. |
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| Most benign skin lesions can be treated successfully with any of several treatment modalities. |
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| We included data on oesophageal and gastric operations for malignant and benign disease with palliative or curative intent. |
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| In contrast, benign pelvic lymph nodes averaged 1.7 cm in their greatest dimension. |
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| Biopsy specimens of those cysts and the liver cyst revealed benign mesothelial cysts and focal papillary mesothelioma. |
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| She had a remote hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy for benign disease. |
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| Histologically, these lesions form a spectrum of tumors ranging from benign cystic adenomas to proliferative cystic sebaceous tumors. |
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| The majority of thymomas are benign, and patients have a survival rate equal to that of the general population. |
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| Surely a benign and forgiving God will allow me this foible, this eccentricity. |
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| The benign variant is a typical example of an intraductal papilloma arising in the sublingual gland, a previously unreported site. |
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| Water spiders skitted on pondweed wetness and big black benign gnats hung in the air. |
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| His psychiatrist said yesterday that he had multiple meningiomas or benign tumours adjacent to his brain. |
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| In 1979 he had a partial gastrectomy for benign gastric ulcers, followed by post gastrectomy anaemia. |
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| To be fair, some adware programs are benign, merely showing you ads within the body of the free programs. |
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| Unfortunately, the methods used to grow leatherleafs and other fern types is often less than benign. |
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| This is typical of his benign, easy-going, essentially charitable approach. |
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| In general, benign lesions are round and symmetric, while melanomas are asymmetric. |
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| His condition was the result of overproduction of growth hormone caused by a benign tumour on the pituitary gland. |
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| I realize that this is very far from Wicca, any elemental magic or chaos magic, Qabbalah or any of the more benign practices. |
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| And with the coffee I am treated to a combative side of him I had suspected lurked beneath his benign surface but never thought to witness. |
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| The bookworm, Benjamin noted, was a gentle creature, a benign agent of history. |
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| And any benign thoughts my party may have harboured evaporated when our scheduled, relatively short sail took more than four hours to complete. |
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| The open eye, which had been fairly benign and friendly up until then, narrowed slightly into a bit of a glare. |
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| What makes an otherwise gentle and benign guy like him speak so callously and cruelly of 950 deaths? |
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| She was a benign, kind and gentle lady whom Julia had admired, respected and adored greatly. |
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| We often work in a benign weather environment, but we always should be prepared to handle weather contingencies. |
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| I thought permaculture was about creating synergy between plants so that you develop a little benign ecosystem in your backyard. |
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| Jersey's benign climate and free-draining sandy soil provide the ideal environment for over 80 species of lavender. |
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| A more sinister consequence of prolonged sun exposure is the greatly increased incidence of both benign and malignant tumours. |
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| Pleomorphic adenoma is a benign neoplasm that occurs in major or minor salivary glands. |
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| I detect a resentful air out there, a feeling of wings clipped, of space grossly invaded, of a winter's benign neglect cast violently aside. |
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| Through our political choices we've supported leadership by, at best, benign neglect. |
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| If we ever want racing to be an international sport, we need to put an end to this benign neglect of stewards. |
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| Two patients fulfilled the criteria for hypochondriasis and 18 for the chronic benign pain syndrome. |
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| The odd thing is that the language differences the researchers discovered would seem, at first blush, to be rather benign. |
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| America is such an enlightened and benign hegemon, they argue, that most states will pant for US leadership. |
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| Electrosurgical treatment is ideal for pyogenic granulomas, which are very vascular, benign tumors. |
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| There are several hundred living species of this group, which includes the benign coccolithophorids. |
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| Cancer can coexist with benign lesions, so complete assessment is necessary. |
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| The February 2001 AORN Journal will feature one Home Study Program that discusses treating benign colon disorders using laparoscopic colectomy. |
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| Low anterior colon resection and right colectomy are two laparoscopic approaches to treat benign bowel disease. |
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| A benign deterrent is planting alternate food sources, such as mulberries or wild cherries, to lure birds away from your garden. |
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| The innate goodness of an improvable humanity, like the oversight of a benign deity, eroded along with faith in democratic institutions. |
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| A benign endurance, a sort of affable inattention, settles like snow upon the landscape. |
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| Laryngeal papillomas are the most common benign laryngeal growths in children. |
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| Ependymomas and choroid plexus papillomas generally appear cytologically benign or bland. |
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| Many people think of it as the soft, benign, bright-white Montrachet often served in a fancy salad along with a bit of apple and some walnuts. |
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| Such factors might include the presence of benign prostatic hyperplasia or prostate cancer. |
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| These are extremely rare benign tumours which develop from the pineal gland situated between the two halves of the brain. |
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| Although usually benign, windgalls should be regarded with suspicion in the presence of lameness. |
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| Ganglioneuroma is a benign tumor of the sympathetic nervous system that rarely produces symptoms of endocrine dysfunction. |
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| Who are the mysterious prisoners that clamour insistently at the edges of otherwise benign dreams? |
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| Microscopic examination revealed a benign mucinous neoplasm with metaplastic bone formation and extensive chronic inflammation. |
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| Short but recurrent attacks of vertigo are often caused by benign positional vertigo. |
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| After having two benign lumps removed, she had her procedures done just to play it safe. |
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| Clad like anyone else in a safari suit, what set him aside was his regal gait and benign look. |
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| Most technological futurology see agents as benign, as obedient slaves who only have our best interests at heart. |
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| The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions. |
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| At a season of religious festivals, the rich peoples of the world indulge in a benign competition to do good. |
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| Flashbacks are generally short-term, non-distressing, recurrent, spontaneous, reversible and benign conditions. |
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| This is a benign rather than sinister story, and I know that some may be indisposed to accept it. |
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| Is adaptation to stressful environments more rapid and extensive than to benign environments? |
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| So I suppose the only point I am making is that the reader should not, in my opinion, mistake this kindly and benign country for the real thing. |
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| He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. |
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| I believe the balance sheet of Australian history is a very generous and benign one. |
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| His eyes twinkle in that benign manner that makes me feel like I'm at a candy shop, talking to the old shop keeper. |
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| The mating game we were witnessing in the penguin colony was gentle and benign by comparison. |
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| At the moment, though, the normally benign Morris has fallen into a stern mood. |
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| At home, his bond with his stepfather contributed to his benign and affectionate feelings toward men. |
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| The village spirits are considered benign, helping people to have good and happy lives so long as proper rituals are observed. |
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| Breakoffs and override have occurred without warning, under locally benign weather conditions. |
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| Land that is close to major cities, has good views, is close to water and has a benign climate, attracts migrants from the urban areas. |
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| In persistently windy areas consider planting a windbreak to create a more benign climate for your garden. |
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| If sown now these will be ready for transplanting at the end of March when the climate is more benign. |
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| It is said that due to its benign climate, the best tenors have always come from Italy. |
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| The winter freeze and spring thaw climatic conditions are also not typical of Australia's relatively benign climate. |
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| On a summer's day Ben Nevis appears to be a benign environment, with a track leading to the summit used by around 70,000 walkers a year. |
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| The region's benign climate, chalky terrain and spectacular summer light is a wine-maker's dream. |
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| When confronted by a stress, a mobile organism can seek refuge in physically benign microhabitats or abandon the area entirely. |
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| Patients with prostate cancer tend to have lower free-total ratios than do patients with benign disease. |
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| Asthma in young children is no longer considered a benign disease, since it often presents with acute exacerbations. |
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| Isolated atrial and ventricular ectopic beats in pregnant women without existing heart disease are usually benign. |
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| Her past medical history was significant only for an abdominal hysterectomy performed more than 10 years earlier for benign disease. |
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| Polymyalgia is not a benign disease, but correctly treated it can be controlled. |
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| Uncomplicated infections are generally benign but, if not treated, can interfere with daily life. |
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| Accordingly, SARS-associated coronavirus may not change rapidly into a benign infection. |
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| Each year scores of different respiratory viruses cause a mostly benign illness, which cannot be distinguished clinically by causal agent. |
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| Following up the placebo arm of a randomised trial can be a good way of tracking the course of benign diseases. |
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| The specimens for histologic diagnoses in these groups were obtained by hysterectomies performed to treat other benign diseases. |
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| Because the syndrome is benign most individuals do not even know they carry a hemoglobin abnormality. |
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| As it turned out, subsequent events proved that the suspected cancer was benign. |
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| In actual fact, for the vast majority of cases, the childhood infectious diseases are benign and self-limiting. |
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| It is difficult to distinguish premalignant lesions from more common benign inflammatory conditions in the general population. |
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| In the brain, both malignant and benign tumours can be harmful because they increase pressure in the skull. |
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| That's exactly what critics are saying, and what they say is there's really a policy of benign neglect going on. |
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| On the other hand, the physician fearing noncompliance might treat the problem with benign neglect and not monitor patients' renal function. |
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| He might be back, too, if his mysterious benign tumor stops sapping him of his strength. |
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| Even lesions with clinical changes often are proved to be benign tumors or warts. |
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| I'm hoping that it will be benign as the last thing she needs is more radiotherapy. |
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| Repeaters should be used everywhere else, since any jitter transferring through the repeater is low frequency and benign to downstream devices. |
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| I have pictured the culprit as a rather benign old buffer spending his days in an alcoholic haze waiting for his pension. |
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| Any lesion, even one presumed benign, that repeatedly recurs after proper cryotherapy should be biopsied. |
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| Snorkelers can find brain coral, sea grasses, sea stars, stingrays, fishes of every color and even sluggish, benign nurse sharks. |
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| But it goes without saying that bridges can be conduits of benign or malignant cargoes. |
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| It may look benign on a calm day, but the North Devon coast is a wrecker's paradise. |
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| In its biologic behavior, desmoplastic fibroma is probably closer to low-grade malignancies than to usual benign lesions of bone. |
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| By the very nature of what it is, Empires are malignant, not benign though they cloak this malignancy with shallow kindness. |
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| The difference between malignant and benign tumours is that malignant tumours have the ability to invade surrounding areas. |
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| Modern comedy is more transient and laddish, but vintage comedy is much more benign and there is much more skill involved. |
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| This gives copyright holders the legal tools in the UK to pursue action against copyright crackers, however benign their intentions. |
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| Shortly into my neurophysiological assessment, normally recruiting muscles confirmed a diagnosis of benign fasciculations. |
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| The vibrant, benign energy in nature, represented by the white butterfly, promises that life endures and continues in some other form. |
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| Among benign breast tumors, fibroadenomas were the most common. |
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| Similarly, in 1996 post-apartheid South Africa agreed to swear off the use of DDT in favour of insecticides that environmental groups claimed were more benign. |
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| Development of benign neurofibromas versus malignant neurofibrosarcomas may be the difference between inactivation of one NF1 allele versus both alleles, respectively. |
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| The overwhelming message carried by the mainstream is that corporate activities are largely benign and certainly not worth systematic investigation. |
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| This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to finding tyrants and reigns of terror no threat to individual freedom. |
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| The most common type is the retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenomas, which are benign cystic tumors characterized by a large unilocular or multilocular cyst. |
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| While shooting was hated by the mass of the rural population, and the Game Laws universally flouted, they took a benign and active interest in the hunt. |
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| What sets the film apart from others is the way in which Mendes employs a seemingly benign and satirical scene like this as a springboard for much larger questions. |
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| Unless an incumbent government takes an active interest in improving the supply of public services, benign neglect will inevitably lead to a gradual deterioration. |
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| Materiality is pure terror for which the only consolation is materiality itself, in its more benign aspects of color and contour and fleshly pleasure. |
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| It is important to remember that in a lot of cases tumours are benign. |
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| They knew there might be the occasional saltie as well as the smaller and more benign freshwater crocodiles, but had ancient knowledge to deal with them. |
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| Another paper details the inner workings of a normally benign bug that has evolved drug-resistance and turns traitor when its human host is weakened by disease. |
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| Exostoses and osteomas are benign bony growths of the external auditory canal that interfere with normal cerumen migration, leading to occlusion and conductive hearing loss. |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 2.5-cm, smoothly marginated, ovoid mass that did not have the signal characteristics typical for benign adenoma or myelolipoma. |
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| His portrayal of Godfrey is a wonderment of reserve and benign passivity. |
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| The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished. |
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| It truly is like being in the presence of a benign life form, maybe a similar vibe to standing next to a five hundred year-old tree in a quiet, deserted wood. |
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| When the myoclonic jerks are unilateral, a more serious condition is often suspected and the diagnosis of benign sleep myoclonus may not be considered. |
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| Although the tumour cannot be completely eradicated, Maxwell's surgeon has told her that tests have revealed it to be relatively benign, and her prognosis is good. |
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| He subsequently underwent surgery to remove six feet of small intestine, which had strangulated itself because a benign tumor of fat cells that restricted blood flow. |
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| Consider how long a cell-phone battery lasts in a benign environment. |
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| They are typically invasive, highly adaptive, parasitic and adept at mimicking more benign plants. |
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| The sole patient with benign pleural disease showing a mediastinal pleural involvement on MRI was identified pathologically as tuberculous pleurisy. |
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| To use a relatively benign example, they are to the Pentagon what Silicon Valley startups were to Eastman Kodak. |
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| The giraffe gazed downwards at us with a stupidly benign expression on its face and slowly stalked away, balanced on its implausibly spindly legs. |
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| Today no one in either party would accept such a benign explanation for a lapse in security, nor should they. |
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| Fibroids are benign growths in the muscular wall of the uterus. |
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| Ten years ago it could have been said that electrophysiologists were a relatively benign breed of cardiologists who did little harm but little good either. |
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| Her medical history included a cholecystectomy, appendectomy, and ovarian cystectomy for a benign cyst, all performed approximately 20 years before this presentation. |
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| Visually, the show is a treat, and the tone is mostly benign and gentle. |
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| She was so gentle and benign, but worked so cleverly with people. |
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| Tumours of the liver may be cystic or solid, benign or malignant. |
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| However benign her motives, though, she should have been stopped. |
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| They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing. |
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| Though this might seem to represent a trend toward a more benign way of reconciling the budworm and the forest ecosystem, the approach has obvious limits. |
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| That means that the filing system in their brains is stored with memories that indicate that even seemingly benign situations can carry some hidden threat. |
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| As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features. |
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| All normal and benign biopsy specimens, with the exception of the 2 lactational adenomas, showed varying numbers of positive epithelial cells and lymphocytes. |
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| A small benign external ulcer could progress to true pizzle rot. |
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| The owner is front of house and seems permanently genial and benign as we all might be if we lived, as he, his wife and children do, in such a mood-improving environment. |
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| If present, they represent entrapped benign mesothelium or epithelium. |
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| Supporters of this social movement share a diffuse ideology that sees marijuana and hashish as natural and benign drugs and their use as legitimate. |
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| Epithelial cysts originate from the surface layer of mucous or serous membranes, are usually benign, and include epidermoid cysts, retention cysts, and congenital cysts. |
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| For the most part, conditions were benign with sunshine and fresh winds. |
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| Those born into servitude, however benign and remote the oppression may seem, cannot know fully what it is to be free until the day of liberation actually dawns. |
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| However, if a child does fit the criteria for growing pains, the parents should be reassured that this is a benign, self-limited process that occurs for unknown reasons. |
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| It shows a benign countenance, the face of a genial, gentle man. |
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| These other benign interests are being used to pry open the door for all of these other uses. |
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| The proportion of benign biopsies performed in a screening programme should be monitored and compared with that in an unscreened group of women of the same age. |
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| However, only in 3 of these cases was the morphologic appearance in the metastasis so well differentiated as to be considered benign if taken out of context. |
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| Although benign congenital hypotonia subsequently came to be known by the eponym of Walton's hypotonia, Walton was not the first to describe this entity. |
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| He relaxed his pace, removed the look of appraisal and curious scrutiny from his face and replaced it with one of nonchalant friendliness and benign interest. |
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| A century later, segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign, but good for black students. |
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| Beta carotene, a provitamin found in plants and their pigments, is a benign source of vitamin A and is an antioxidant with possible anticarcinogenic properties. |
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| Even the photographs of those who believe MMR to be safe and effective show them to be unsmiling, in contrast with the smiling, benign expressions of the doubters. |
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| It is not some benign magical sleep as shown on TV, where people wake up a year later and are instantly back to normal. |
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| Only 2 percent of the globe enjoys this benign weather pattern, envied by the rest of the world, where warm, dry summers follow mild, wet winters. |
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| The northeast of Tasmania is often noted for its relatively benign climate, and certainly receives much less rain than the western half of the island State. |
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| Then in the Holocene we had a period of benign climatic stability. |
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| Eric lobbies for an industry of benign usefulness, non-partisan in nature, and over which no cloud of serious controversy looms. |
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| That allows us to be a major, efficient agricultural producer, and the key factor is the relatively benign climate that we enjoy in our temperate region. |
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| Here Monty enacts a fantasy of benign American imperialism, touring Europe and Africa in his pleasure yacht. |
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| But under cover of this benign neglect, the region has dramatically changed, mostly for the better. |
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| Infections are typically benign, asymptomatic, and lifelong. |
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| Known as polyps or adenomas, benign tumors in the colon have the potential to become cancerous. |
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| He left each researcher free to sink or swim and, although he occasionally gave advice or criticism, for the most part his policy was one of benign neglect. |
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| In the sunlit river valley the new farms, wrested from the wilderness, and the grid of their fields, flourish in a benign, fertile, mappable landscape. |
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| So all kinds of managers see the brand as indispensable, benign magic. |
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| This would partly be due to its more benign view of the world order which sees military force as an option of last resort, not a matter of policy. |
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| They've been inserting bits of it into other strains of flu that wouldn't normally kill mice, and seeing whether the changes make that benign flu more lethal. |
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| The pop singer announced she has a meningioma, a type of benign brain tumor. |
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| The warriors of Hong Kong's new radicalism, however, are not always as benign as noisy students, dedicated tree-huggers and pinstripe-suited politicians. |
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| He is so utterly rotten he manages to make devils like Perle look positively benign in comparison, and his current evil is fomenting the attack on Iran. |
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| The importance of distinguishing between benign prostatic hyperplasia and benign prostatic enlargement and bladder outlet obstruction is fundamental. |
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| Although it is a benign inhabitant of mucosal surfaces in most individuals, it is a significant cause of infection when host or environmental factors are permissive. |
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| But if we blithely assume that the second enclosure movement will have the same benign effects as the first, we may look like very silly geese indeed. |
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| Levels exceeding 10 ng per mL are rarely due to benign disease. |
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| However, a high PSA score does not always indicate cancer and can be caused by other prostate diseases such as benign prostatic hypertrophy or prostatitis. |
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| Even an apparently benign project such as building a new capital city is mired in personal vision and is rarely reflective of collective memory or desire. |
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| There is no sense behind those who claim we are in a new benign post-modern globalist world where multinational corporations have uncertain loyalties. |
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| He watches with benign cynicism as Charles walks the high wire. |
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| A new ovarian tumor index to help physicians accurately diagnose ovarian tumors as cancerous or benign has been developed by researchers in Dallas. |
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| And under the benign gaze of such governments, the poor have filled up marshland, resurfaced uneven land, all with their own labour, and built their homes. |
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