untreatable
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6.5
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtritəbl/
- Specialized
:
intratable
- I hit adolescence when AIDS (then always fatal and mostly untreatable) hit the scene.
- untreatable disease
- untreatable infection
- untreatable condition
Examples
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Now one of them is dying from an extremely rare, untreatable, and incurable form of cancer.
Blog text (16) -
Many infections might be untreatable in resource-constrained environments.
Academic text (2014) -
Because the cause is unknown and so far untreatable, I have had to learn how to deal with the pain.
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Those are brand new therapeutic targets for a currently untreatable disease.
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However, what I would not want to know are the diseases or disorders that are untreatable or that do not have early warning signs.
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A friend who once had an untreatable, fatal heart condition recommends you try to contact the Shriner's/Masonic Medical Research Center.
Blog text (16) -
I have familial hypercholesterolemia, and because I had medical insurance, my condition was monitored... but it is untreatable.
Blog text (13) -
Tuberculosis of the joints and osteomyelitis were common untreatable illnesses during this time.
Academic text (2005) -
Now, we must make sure he doesn't have a treatable problem such as infection (as opposed to an untreatable one, where we just support the patient and hope he gets better).
Fiction book (1994) -
In the past, many diseases were considered untreatable, causing widespread concern among health professionals.
Synonyms
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5.2
A disease that cannot be cured
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4.9
Impossible to repair or make work again
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9.6
Not able to be fixed or made better
A condition that cannot be cured by medicine or other ways
Cannot be fixed
Antonyms
How Treatable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untreatable starts with un- meaning 'not' and has the root treat meaning 'to care for' or 'deal with', as in treatment. So untreatable means 'not able to be treated' or 'not able to be cured', which is why doctors use it for illnesses they cannot fix.