Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BENIGN
BENIGN
Definitions of BENIGN
- Kind; gentle; mild.
- (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
- (in combination) Not harmful to the environment.
- (medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BENIGN in a Sentence
- Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause.
- MIT hack, a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), previously known as pseudotumor cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension, is a condition characterized by increased intracranial pressure (pressure around the brain) without a detectable cause.
- The play, celebrated for its wit and repartee, parodies contemporary dramatic norms, gently satirises late Victorian manners, and introduces – in addition to the two pairs of young lovers – the formidable Lady Bracknell, the fussy governess Miss Prism and the benign and scholarly Canon Chasuble.
- It is characterized by visceral cysts and benign tumors with potential for subsequent malignant transformation.
- A skin tag, or acrochordon (: acrochorda), is a small benign tumor that forms primarily in areas where the skin forms creases (or rubs together), such as the neck, armpit and groin.
- The Munsters is an American sitcom about the home life of a family of benign monsters that aired from 1964 to 1966 on CBS.
- As a motif in fiction, the mad scientist may be villainous (evil genius) or antagonistic, benign, or neutral; may be insane, eccentric, or clumsy; and often works with fictional technology or fails to recognise or value common human objections to attempting to play God.
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also called prostate enlargement, is a noncancerous increase in size of the prostate gland.
- Barclay underwent changes from, as first conceived, a malicious character—someone that aggravated the crew to compensate for his inferiority complex—to the softer and more benign engineer that made it to air.
- It can be a benign tumor such as thyroid adenoma, or it can be a malignant neoplasm (thyroid cancer), such as papillary, follicular, medullary or anaplastic thyroid cancer.
- The condition is characterized by benign but ultimately debilitating epithelial tumours on the surface of biological tissues.
- Benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS) is characterized by fasciculation (twitching) of voluntary muscles in the body.
- Vocal cord nodules are bilaterally symmetrical benign white masses that form at the midpoint of the vocal folds.
- In (2), collisions are found between two sets, in this case, 1 out of 256 pairings of only the first bytes of SHA-256 hashes of 16 variants each of benign and malicious contracts.
- 22 in E major, Hoboken I/22, is a symphony written by Joseph Haydn in 1764, under the auspices of the benign Prince Nikolaus Esterházy.
- The highest rating episode was when it was revealed that Lucy Sutcliffe's (portrayed by Elisabeth Kirkby) lump in her breast was benign, after which many women went to their doctors to be tested for cancer, an issue that was not discussed much at the time and long before singer Kylie Minogue went public with her diagnosis.
- A functional murmur is a benign heart murmur that is primarily due to physiologic conditions outside the heart.
As I had the good fortune a few years ago to be heard by Your Royal Highness, at Your Highness's commands, and as I noticed then that Your Highness took some pleasure in the little talents which Heaven has given me for Music, and as in taking Leave of Your Royal Highness, Your Highness deigned to honour me with the command to send Your Highness some pieces of my Composition: I have in accordance with Your Highness's most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigour of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him.
- A birthmark is a congenital, benign irregularity on the skin which is present at birth or appears shortly after birth—usually in the first month.
- They are useful in radiation therapy for the treatment of various benign or malignant skin problems, including skin cancer and severe eczema.
- While orf is usually a benign self-limiting illness which resolves in 3-6 weeks, in the immunocompromised it can be very progressive and even life-threatening.
- Benign or malignant tumors of nonendocrine tissues occur as components of some of these tumor syndromes.
- He embraced the negationist belief that slavery as practiced in the American South was benign and that Black people were racially inferior to White people, but that upper class whites like himself should act in paternalistic fashion.
- A bone tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue in bone, traditionally classified as noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).
Search for BENIGN in:
Page preparation took: 417.13 ms.
