"benign person" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone who is gentle and kind. For example: "My neighbor is an absolutely benign person; she always has a kind word for everyone."
It is an ingeniously horrible episode, with the special horror that comes from seeing a benign and innocent person being crueller than a less kind but more knowing one.
We soon learn to predict, from a single glance on the doorstep, guilty or benign, how each person voted in the first round, and the suspense of the tale — sharper than you would expect — comes from hoping for changes of heart.
Estimates of the mean number of apparently benign CNVs per person range from 6-824 in various studies, depending on the technology used to identify the variants and the size range used to define a CNV [ 16- 25].
For these analyses, the patient DNA is labeled and hybridized to the microarray, and the patient results are compared with a well-studied reference DNA. 9 It should be noted that not all CNVs are pathologic, in that it has been demonstrated that the mean number of benign CNVs per person could be as high as 800 or more.
"They have had a record of not interfering, of being benign proprietors," said a person who has worked for them.
"I'd always seen Germaine as being the most ultimately lovable, completely benign, noble, gallant, amusing person – which is how Germaine sees herself as well," says Caitlin.
Dr. Suler notes that disinhibition can be either benign — when a shy person feels free to open up online — or toxic, as in flaming.
Yet the large majority of close friendships wither away over time, usually as a result of benign neglect, with neither person caring enough about the friendship to make a go of it.
Three seronegative horses inoculated with a recent WNV lineage 2 strain (SPU381/00) isolated from a person with benign disease did not develop clinical signs (13 ).
Although most infections are benign, ≈20% of infected persons have fever, rash, arthralgia, and myalgia, and for ≈1% of these, severe disease, including meningoencephalitis, encephalitis, and polio-like flaccid paralysis, may develop.
