BENIGN


Meaning of BENIGN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

malignant/benign tumour (= caused by or not caused by cancer )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

environmentally

Mr. Trippier My right hon. Friend is not environmentally benign but environmentally friendly.

They started buying artifacts that they saw as environmentally benign - with remarkable effect.

more

It may be that the best corrective to them arises from frequent interaction with a more benign reality.

Fortunately, inter-agency rivalries are usually more benign .

We report photographic follow-up of patients with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi and 20 or more benign naevi.

After a successful revolution, however, a more benign and positive state can be installed.

The door was pushed open and Zak Smythe, who grew more benign as the days went by, appeared.

All are testimony to a wetter, more benign past.

Instead, a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun.

The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.

most

But gifts such as these can not be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most benign of governments.

There were some medical books, two technical manuals for radiology equipment, and office supplies of the most benign sort.

relatively

In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.

One advantage that Roundup has over other herbicides is that it is relatively benign to the environment.

■ NOUN

neglect

Indeed, after years of benign neglect , the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.

Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect .

Where interiors have survived, it has been through benign neglect .

Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.

A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.

Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.

A policy worthy of the suspicion of benign neglect .

stricture

The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain.

It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.

The rectum was the commonest site of benign strictures , 68% in our study, as in others.

In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.

Of the patients with benign strictures , 32 had universal colitis and 10 had left sided involvement alone.

Although these strictures are more difficult to dilate than other benign strictures, in experienced hands most patients can be treated successfully.

Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction.

In one case of benign stricture , the endoscopy biopsy specimen was reported as being suspicious for malignancy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a benign tumor

the animal's benign nature

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But gifts such as these can not be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most benign of governments.

If kept in a small cul-de-sac by itself, it will be utterly benign .

Perhaps the expansion can continue and possibly it will one day taper off in benign fashion.

Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.

The benign old woman wore a big flowered garden hat and tended a magical flower garden.

There is an hierarchical structure, but managerial authority is respected as a benign guardian of company interests.

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