incurable disease

collocation in English

meaningsofincurableanddisease

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incurable
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈkjʊə.rə.bəl/us
/ɪnˈkjʊr.ə.bəl/
not able to ...
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disease
noun
uk
/dɪˈziːz/us
/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofincurableanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Critics of treatment for inhibitingincurablediseaseand infertility.
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The diagnosis of anincurablediseaseimplies an existential crisis.
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Is treatment ofincurablediseaseplaced in the hands of other countries?
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Eighty-three physicians responded to the question of withdrawal of treatment in patients withincurabledisease.
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Have you ever stopped medical treatment of a patient who had anincurabledisease?
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Overall survival is poor because many patients present with locally advanced and oftenincurabledisease.
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Medical unfitness is not anincurabledisease.
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Who do you primarily notify about disease and prognosis when a patient in your care has anincurabledisease?
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One is anincurablediseaseand the other is not.
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They must be suffering from severe and progressiveincurabledisease.
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They areincurabledisease, great pain, soundness of mind.
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It has become a kind ofincurabledisease.
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Cancer is anincurabledisease.
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Covetuousness is theincurabledisease.
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She has anincurabledisease.
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Among the general population, 73% of participants answered that they "want to know" about their disease and prognosis when in anincurablediseasestate.
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To have anincurablediseasemeans that the agent will (according to the best understanding of modern science) die or be in intense, incurable pain.
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His wife has been struck down by a serious and apparentlyincurabledisease.
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He came down to the islands when he was dying of anincurabledisease.
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It is anincurablediseaseas things stand at the moment.
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However, he had anincurabledisease.
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He is now suffering from anincurablediseaseand has had to hand over the reins of office.
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It will not promote better understanding among the nations of the world to have anincurabledisease.
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That is an additional horror that can be inflicted by these provisions on all people suffering from anincurabledisease.
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