Medical Terminology / Unit 14 MedTerm 0904 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Benign
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The idea
A benign tumour is one that does not invade surrounding tissue or spread to distant sites.
In practice
A lipoma is a benign tumour of fat tissue.
Where people slip
Benign describes behaviour, not size. A benign mass may still be large.
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