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non-malignant

British  
/ ˌnɒnməˈlɪɡnənt /

adjective

  1. (of a tumour) not uncontrollable or resistant to therapy

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These evolving views of haematopoiesis have broad implications for our understanding of the functions of adult stem cells, as well as the development of new therapies for malignant and non-malignant haematopoietic diseases.

From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018

Newsweek has reported, based on medical records, that the girl’s missing eye is the result of surgery to remove a non-malignant tumor when she was 13.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2014

Peter Toth, a pharmacologist and neuroscientist who directed the confocal microscopy imaging core in Stephen’s group, used his extraordinary live-cell imaging expertise to visualize the mitochondrial networks of malignant and non-malignant lung cells over time.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2012

Inhibition of Drp-1 reversed the mitochondrial fragmentation and restored the degree of mitochondrial networking in malignant cancer cells to the levels we observed in healthy non-malignant cells.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2012

Ulcer of the cervix, of a non-malignant kind, probably sometimes gives rise to neuralgic pain of the uterus, though this is not so severe as in cancer.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.