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innocent /in·no·cent/ (in´o-sent) not malignant; benign; not tending of its own nature to a fatal issue.

in·no·cent (

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adj.

Not apparently harmful; benign.

innocent

[in′əsənt]

Etymology: L, innocens, harmless

benign, innocuous, or functional; not malignant, such as an innocent heart murmur.

benign [be-nīn´]

not recurrent; favorable for recovery with appropriate treatment. The opposite of malignant.

innocent

not malignant; benign.

innocent bystander reaction

when antibody attaches to antigen bound to erythrocytes, the erythrocytes are marked for complement mediated lysis and phagocytosis by reticuloendothelial cells, these 'innocent bystander' cells are protected from lysis by complement components.

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