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Designating a disease, symptom, condition, etc., from which it is possible to recover. Also occasionally in extended use.
Pathology. = schetic, adj.
Of an illness or pain: not severe.
Medicine. Of diseases: Of a mild type; not malignant.
transferred. Of a disease: not malignant or recurrent; = benign, adj. 5b.
Not strong or energetic in action; lacking in force or power. Of an attack of disease: Not severe or acute.