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Benign tumor   /bɪnˈaɪn tˈumər/   Listen
Benign tumor

noun
1.
A tumor that is not cancerous.  Synonyms: benign tumour, nonmalignant neoplasm, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour.






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"Benign tumor" Quotes from Famous Books



... His functioning is not a furtherance of the generic life process. At its best, in its direct economic bearing, it is a conversion of the economic substance of the collectivity to a growth alien to the collective life process—very much after the analogy of what in medicine would be called a benign tumor, with some tendency to transgress the uncertain line that divides the benign from the malign growths. The two barbarian traits, ferocity and astuteness, go to make up the predaceous temper or spiritual attitude. They are the expressions of a narrowly self-regarding habit of mind. Both are highly ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen



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