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non-malignant

/ ˌnɒnməˈlɪɡnənt /

adjective

  1. (of a tumour) not uncontrollable or resistant to therapy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

De Morgan and others have shown the same thing to be true of non-malignant morbid growths.

A non-malignant ulceration may result which later leads on to an oesophageal stricture.

Cases of limited tumours affecting merely the head and upper third of the bone, and non-malignant in character.

The non-malignant forms—osteoma, chondroma, and fibroma—are rare.

The diagnosis between malignant and non-malignant stenosis of the pylorus is in some cases impossible.

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