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benign and entity
Above all pantheons of gods, mystical beings, and cosmic / conceptual entities there exists one, supreme " God ", a mysterious but apparently benign entity sometimes referred to as the One-Above-All.
Accordingly eco-anarchism and the looser green anarchisms, and related theories in green economics such as that of trustee stewardship of the commons, are more likely to perceive group-entity actions as benign if the group entity itself has a biological or ecological parameter, mission or scope.
Here, the Master escaped the Rani's TARDIS in The Mark of the Rani by splitting the console room from the rest of it, leaving the Rani adrift in a space-time bubble until she encountered a benign entity that created a distorted pocket reality where the Romans possessed 20th-century technology due to their access to the databanks of a duplicate of the Doctor's TARDIS console.
Type 1 second-degree heart block is considered a more benign entity than type 2 second-degree heart block.
In cases of benign negotiations, the Mage whose specialty is Extraplanar Proxy will frequently draw a circle of protection – not for their own protection, but for the protection of the entity they seek to draw to them, so that that creature will know itself to be safe.

benign and known
Essential tremor was also previously known as " benign essential tremor ", but the adjective " benign " has been removed in recognition of the sometimes disabling nature of the disorder.
An acrochordon ( plural acrochorda, and also known as a ( cutaneous ) skin tag, or fibroepithelial polyp ,) is a small benign tumor that forms primarily in areas where the skin forms creases, such as the neck, armpit, and groin.
Neurofibromatosis ( commonly abbreviated NF ; neurofibromatosis type 1 is also known as von Recklinghausen disease ) is a genetically-inherited disorder in which the nerve tissue grows tumors ( neurofibromas ) that may be benign or may cause serious damage by compressing nerves and other tissues.
McMurtry believed in what was later known as welfare capitalism, with the company going beyond paychecks to provide for the social needs of the workers ; he believed that a benign physical environment made for happier and more productive workers.
While the paper was known as a generally conservative voice of the business establishment in the postwar decades, historian David Hayes, in a review of its positions, has noted that the Globe's editorials in this period " took a benign view of hippies and homosexuals ; championed most aspects of the welfare state ; opposed, after some deliberation, the Vietnam War ; and supported legalizing marijuana.
Also, it is known that some spirits which in life were benign become by death evil altogether.
Because they are encapsulated, teratomas are usually benign, although several forms of malignant teratoma are known and some of these are common forms of teratoma.
When it occurs due to a solitary aldosterone-secreting adrenal adenoma ( a type of benign tumor ), it is known as Conn's syndrome.
Primary familial polycythemia, also known as primary familial and congenital polycythemia ( PFCP ), exists as a benign hereditary condition, in contrast with the myeloproliferative changes associated with acquired polycythemia vera.
While seemingly benign, the skyscraper's true purpose is to summon a demon known as Leviathan.
Infection by most papillomavirus types, depending on the type, is either asymptomatic ( e. g. most Beta-PVs ) or causes small benign tumors, known as papillomas or warts ( e. g. human papillomavirus1, HPV6 or HPV11 ).
BPV-1 infection of horses, which are an incidental host for the virus, can lead to the development of benign tumors known as sarcoids.
* Outbreak of " Royal Free disease " or " benign myalgic encephalomyelitis ", strongly resembling what will later be known as chronic fatigue syndrome, among staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
There are several variants of the myth, including: Saci-pererê (), black as coal ( the best known ); Saci-trique (), mulatto and more benign ; Saci-saçurá (), with red eyes.
A Mongolian spot, also known as " Mongolian blue spot ", " congenital dermal melanocytosis ", and " dermal melanocytosis " is a benign, flat, congenital birthmark with wavy borders and irregular shape, discovered on and named after Mongolians by Erwin Bälz.
The traditional agricultural system practiced by tribes in the Amazon is based on swidden cultivation ( also known as slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation ) and is considered a relatively benign disturbance.
A significant proportion ( 25 – 50 %) of otherwise healthy African Americans are known to have a persistently lower white blood cell count than the normal range defined for individuals of European ancestry — a condition known as benign ethnic neutropenia.
Tseri, known to Tibetans as " Amala ", meaning " The Great Mother ", was recuperating after a throat operation to remove a benign polyp performed at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
In most patients with benign prostate hyperplasia ( BPH ), a procedure known as transurethral resection of the prostate ( TURP ) is performed to relieve bladder obstruction.
Peutz – Jeghers syndrome, also known as hereditary intestinal polyposis syndrome, is an autosomal dominant genetic disease characterized by the development of benign hamartomatous polyps in the gastrointestinal tract and hyperpigmented macules on the lips and oral mucosa.
A seborrheic keratosis ( also known as " seborrheic verruca ," and " senile wart ") is a noncancerous benign skin growth that originates in keratinocytes.
Benign fibrous histiocytomas ( also known as " Dermal dendrocytoma ," " Dermatofibroma ," " Fibrous dermatofibroma ," " Fibrous histiocytoma ", " Fibroma simplex ", " Nodular subepidermal fibrosis ", and " Sclerosing hemangioma ") are benign skin growths.

benign and ")
Though bombarded with many horrible films, he tends to take his captivity in benign stride, delivering most of his riffs in dead pan, holding no ill will against his captors and even affectionately calling them " the Mads " ( among other amusing nicknames such as " the Overlords ") while riffing on popular culture (" Auntie Em and Toto ") or things found in Minnesota (" Milavetz and Associates ", a prominent Twin Cities-area law firm ).
Jimmy, the fifties ' pimp and sixties ' black power leader, is the seventies ' guerrilla ; Roche, the jaded white liberal, resembles in his wronged mood a slave-owner -- he is a kind of benign puppeteer ; and Jane, who uses the lingo of sympathy easily (" words that she might shed at any time, as easily as she had picked them up, and forget that she had ever spoken them ") -- Naipaul describes her best: " She was without memory.

benign and named
Mongolian spot visible on six-month-old babyA Mongolian blue spot is a benign flat congenital birthmark with wavy borders and irregular shape, most common among East Asians and Turks ( excluding Turkish people ), and named after Mongolians.
* The most frequent, malignant, primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma ( also named hepatoma, which is a misnomer because adenomas are usually benign ).
An example of benign usage was the previous naming of Boondocks Road in Jefferson County, Texas, originally named " Jap Road " when it was built in 1905 to honor a popular local rice farmer from Japan.

benign and Old
He is one of very few apparently benign Lovecraftian Great Old Ones who does not cause insanity in those who view him.

benign and One
One NSA goal is benign fill ( technology for distributing keys in a way that the humans never have access to plaintext key ).
One recent development is the use of stereotactic radiosurgery to treat CNS tumours, both benign and malignant, and arteriovenous malformations with accurately focused beams of radiation, providing so-called “ knifeless surgery ”.
This marks the widening of one of the Buffyverse's overall themes, that demons are capable of being benign whereas soulless vampires are not, a concept introduced in " Becoming, Part One " and explored more fully in the Angel spin-off.

benign and seeking
With the help of the local animals, Ka ' Zar established himself as the guardian of the jungle which involved meting out harsh retribution to any intruder seeking to exploit his resources-but he frequently aided more benign explorers, such as when he protected Prof. Rice and his daughter Mara from the criminal pilot “ Red ” Skelton, rescued Rita Grey from the Wabi tribe, and helped two Scotland Yard detectives capture murderer London Jack.

benign and information
Stressed environment: In radio communications, an environment that is under the influence of extrinsic factors that degrade communications integrity, such as when ( a ) the benign communications medium is disturbed by natural or man-made events ( such as an intentional nuclear burst ), ( b ) the received signal is degraded by natural or man-made interference ( such as jamming signals or co-channel interference ), ( c ) an interfering signal can reconfigure the network, and / or ( d ) an adversary threatens successful communications, in which case radio signals may be encrypted in order to deny the adversary an intelligible message, traffic flow information, network information, or automatic link establishment ( ALE ) control information.
Such a capability is contingent on the reasonable chance that the user at some time provides user-identifying information, whether voluntarily, indirectly, or simply through inference of many seemingly benign pieces of data.
For example, in Terminator 2, it disguises itself as a police officer to gain trust, access information, and provide a benign appearance.
A benign social planner has to choose a single outcome from the set using the information about the individuals ' preferences.

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