incurable

  • 31incurable — adj. Incurable is used with these nouns: ↑cancer, ↑condition, ↑disease, ↑illness, ↑optimist, ↑romantic …

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  • 32incurable — [ɪnˈkjʊərəb(ə)l] adj 1) not able to be cured 2) not able to be changed an incurable romantic[/ex] incurably adv …

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  • 33incurable — adj. & n. adj. that cannot be cured. n. a person who cannot be cured. Derivatives: incurability n. incurableness n. incurably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF incurable or LL incurabilis (as IN (1), CURABLE) …

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  • 34incurable insanity — A legal reason for obtaining a divorce. It is rarely used, however, because of the difficulty of proving both the insanity of the spouse being divorced and that the insanity is incurable. Category: Divorce & Family Law → Divorce, Child Support &… …

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  • 35incurable romantic — noun A person who is very romantic. He always buys me a dozen red roses on my birthday mdash; hes an incurable romantic …

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  • 36incurable bone-ache —    obsolete    syphilis    Not rheumatism or arthritis. Until Fleming s discovery of penicillin, the condition might be arrested but not cured, and mental institutions had many patients suffering from neurosyphilis, or general paralysis of the… …

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  • 37incurable disease — Any disease which has reached an incurable stage in the patient afflicted therewith, according to general state of knowledge of the medical profession. Disease for which there is no known cure …

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  • 38incurable disease — Any disease which has reached an incurable stage in the patient afflicted therewith, according to general state of knowledge of the medical profession. Disease for which there is no known cure …

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  • 39incurable disease — A disease which is incurable according to the general state of knowledge of the medical profession at the time in question. Freeman v State Board of Medical Examiners, 54 Okla 531, 154 P 56 …

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  • 40incurable — 1. adjective /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl,ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ Of an illness, condition, etc, that cannot be cured. 2. noun /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl,ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ One who cannot be cured …

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