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What does benign mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word benign? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Kind; gentle; mild.
  2. (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
  3. (in combination) Not harmful to the environment.
  4. (medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
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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.
Snorkelers can find brain coral, sea grasses, sea stars, stingrays, fishes of every color and even sluggish, benign nurse sharks.
Flashbacks are generally short-term, non-distressing, recurrent, spontaneous, reversible and benign conditions.
Even lesions with clinical changes often are proved to be benign tumors or warts.
Wedge biopsy of the lesion showed benign spindle cells arranged in a whorled pattern.
Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness.

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