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incurable

1. (esp of a disease) not curable; unresponsive to treatment
2. a person having an incurable disease
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The mean for poor social relations and incurability was found to be 2.55 (95% CI: 2.48, 2.62).
He is now suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs, notorious for its slowness to develop and incurability.
The local recurrence rate ranges up to 85% in several series of these tumors, the recurrence being a serious sign of incurability. Hence, a correct diagnosis is very useful in managing these aggressive cancers.
[...] [Q]uite often, at least once every few months, he visits his sick friend but Schneider frowns and shakes his head; he hints at a complete derangement of the mental organs; he does not yet speak in the affirmative of incurability, but permits himself the most melancholy allusions.
The fact that it postponed the dreaded diagnosis of incurability probably explains the attractiveness of this version for patients as well as for surgeons.
(16) In 1515, Leo issued a bill supporting the founding of a new hospital in Rome for treating syphilis, one of the so-called religious Incurability set up to heal patients--while purifying their souls.
The stories were composed according to a four within-subject factor design: Type of suffering x Incurability x Request x Age, 2 x 2 x 3 x 3.
Because of its prevalence in our society, the damage and havoc it wreaks, and the mystery of its incurability, chemical addiction is associated with "subjects of deepest dread" in twentieth-century neoliberal life: weakness, dependency, loss of control, bad choice-making, and, I argue, femininity.
The notoriety and incurability of African religiosity has been taken to a very high level that all aspects of life--cosmic and super-sensible--are explained in religious terms.
It equals the proportional reduction in the cancer's rate/probability of incurability, or in its case-fatality rate, attendant to its detection under the screening, when not considering whether the diagnosis is due to the screening or to symptoms emerging between two successively scheduled rounds of the screening.
Because on a weekend in which The X Factor's obsession with returning old faces appeared to have reached fresh levels of incurability, the oldest face in showbiz came back to once more haunt poor Simon's dreams.
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