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Definitions for incurable
ɪnˈkyʊər ə bəlin·cur·able
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Princeton's WordNet
incurableadjective
a person whose disease is incurable
incurableadjective
incapable of being cured
"an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"
incurableadjective
unalterable in disposition or habits
"an incurable optimist"
Wiktionary
incurablenoun
One who cannot be cured.
incurableadjective
Of an illness, condition, etc, that cannot be cured; healless.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Incurableadjective
Not admitting remedy; not to be removed by medicine; irremediable; hopeless.
Etymology: incurable, Fr. in and curable.
Pause not; for the present time's so sick,
That present medicine must be ministred,
Or overthrow incurable ensues. William Shakespeare, King John.Stop the rage betime,
Before the wound do grow incurable;
For being green, there is great hope of help. William Shakespeare, H. VI.A schirrus is not absolutely incurable, because it has been known that fresh pasture has cured it in cattle. Arbuthnot.
If idiots and lunaticks cannot be found, incurables may be taken into the hospital. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
incurable
A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured. The medical condition could be a disease, mental illness, genetic disorder, or simply a condition a person considers socially undesirable, such as baldness or lack of breast tissue. An incurable disease may or may not be a terminal illness; conversely, a curable illness can still result in the patient's death. The proportion of people with a disease that are cured by a given treatment, called the cure fraction or cure rate, is determined by comparing disease-free survival of treated people against a matched control group that never had the disease.Another way of determining the cure fraction and/or "cure time" is by measuring when the hazard rate in a diseased group of individuals returns to the hazard rate measured in the general population.Inherent in the idea of a cure is the permanent end to the specific instance of the disease. When a person has the common cold, and then recovers from it, the person is said to be cured, even though the person might someday catch another cold. Conversely, a person that has successfully managed a disease, such as diabetes mellitus, so that it produces no undesirable symptoms for the moment, but without actually permanently ending it, is not cured. Related concepts, whose meaning can differ, include response, remission and recovery.
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incurable
Incurable refers to something, specifically a disease or condition, that is impossible to treat, alleviate, or completely cure using current medical treatments or methods.
Webster Dictionary
Incurableadjective
not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease
Incurableadjective
not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils
Incurablenoun
a person diseased beyond cure
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Incurable
in-kūr′a-bl, adj. not admitting of cure or correction.—n. one beyond cure.—ns. Incur′ableness, Incurabil′ity.—adv. Incur′ably.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of incurable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of incurable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of incurable in a Sentence
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
I applaud Charlie Sheen for coming out publicly, it was a huge milestone in the HIV epidemic when Magic Johnson came out, then Rock Hudson and Greg Louganis as a Olympic medalist. That was over 25 years ago. HIV may not be fatal and incurable as it was then, yet at the same time there are many people to help and much to do.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
Immunology, like other cutting-edge areas of biomedical science, is a global discipline and one in which the UK excels, we currently rank first amongst the G7 nations for our research in immunity and infectious disease and are now starting to reap the benefits of our efforts, with new treatments for previously incurable diseases emerging after decades of investment and collaboration in immunological research.
I want to use my personal experience to tell other ALS patients that, although we suffer from this incurable disease, there is still much we can do to enrich our lives.
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