Benign

Each year scores of different respiratory viruses cause a mostly benign illness, which cannot be distinguished clinically by causal agent.

As it turned out, subsequent events proved that the suspected cancer was benign .

The winter freeze and spring thaw climatic conditions are also not typical of Australia’s relativelybenign climate.

Polymyalgia is not a benign disease, but correctly treated it can be controlled.

In persistently windy areas consider planting a windbreak to create a more benign climate for your garden.

We are used to really quite benign weather patterns.

The specimens for histologic diagnoses in these groups were obtained by hysterectomies performed to treat other benign diseases.

Patients with prostate cancer tend to have lower free-total ratios than do patients with benign disease.

Asthma in young children is no longer considered a benign disease, since it often presents with acute exacerbations.

What makes an otherwise gentle and benign guy like him speak so callously and cruelly of 950 deaths?

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.

The mating game we were witnessing in the penguin colony was gentle and benign by comparison.

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.

It is difficult to distinguish premalignant lesions from more common benign inflammatory conditions in the general population.

Then in the Holocene we had a period of benign climatic stability.

The bookworm, Benjamin noted, was a gentle creature, a benign agent of history.

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.

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.

Because the syndrome is benign most individuals do not even know they carry a hemoglobin abnormality.

Even seemingly benign weather will heat up a roof.

Accordingly, SARS-associated coronavirus may not change rapidly into a benign infection.

I remember very well having the extraordinary sense that this place was very special – a benign and benevolent land.

Durban has the most benign tropical climate in Africa.

At home, his bond with his stepfather contributed to his benign and affectionate feelings toward men.

Levels exceeding 10 ng per mL are rarely due to benign disease.

The disease seems to be benign in chimpanzees, too.

Her past medical history was significant only for an abdominal hysterectomy performed more than 10 years earlier for benign disease.

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.

Fever may be a marker of sepsis, localized infection, occult bacteremia, or benign illness.