- incurable
- Not curable; beyond the power and skill of medicine. Not susceptible of cure; applied to both patients and disease. Freeman v State Board of Medical Examiners, 54 Okla 531, 154 P 56.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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incurable — [ ɛ̃kyrabl ] adj. • 1314; bas lat. incurabilis 1 ♦ Qui ne peut être guéri. ⇒ inguérissable. « Pour ma maladie, elle est incurable, puisqu elle date de quatre vingts ans » (Voltaire). Malade incurable. ⇒ condamné, fam. 2. fichu, perdu. Subst. Les… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Incurable — In*cur a*ble, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See {In } not, and {Curable}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. [1913 Webster] A scirrhus is not absolutely… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
incurable — Incurable. adj. de t. g. Qui ne peut estre gueri. Mal incurable. maladie incurable. playe incurable. cet homme est incurable. l Hospital des Incurables … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
incurable — adjetivo,sustantivo masculino y femenino 1. Que no se puede curar: enfermo incurable. enfermedad incurable … Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española
incurable — que no se puede curar espontáneamente o con los conocimientos actuales Diccionario ilustrado de Términos Médicos.. Alvaro Galiano. 2010. incurable Que no responde al tratamiento médico o quirúrgico … Diccionario médico
incurable — (adj.) mid 14c., from O.Fr. incurable (13c.), from L.L. incurabilis, from in not (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + curabilis curable (see CURABLE (Cf. curable)). Related: Incurably … Etymology dictionary
incurable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not able to be cured. ► NOUN ▪ an incurable person. DERIVATIVES incurability noun incurably adverb … English terms dictionary
incurable — [in kyoor′ə bəl] adj. [OFr < LL incurabilis] not curable; that cannot be remedied or corrected n. a person having an incurable disease or disorder incurability n. incurably adv … English World dictionary
Incurable — In*cur a*ble, n. A person diseased beyond cure. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
incurable — index deadly, incorrigible, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irreversible Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
incurable — [adj] unfixable, unchangeable cureless, deadly, fatal, hopeless, immedicable, impossible, inoperable, irrecoverable, irremediable, irreparable, nowhere to go*, out of time*, remediless, serious, terminal, uncorrectable, unrecoverable; concepts… … New thesaurus
