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incurable (medicine)


incurable


A person diseased beyond cure.

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. "A scirrh is not absolutely incurable." (Arbuthnot)

2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. "Rancorous and incurable hostility." (Burke) "They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance." (Sir J. Stephen)

Synonym: Irremediable, remediless, irrecoverable, irretrievable, irreparable, hopeless.

Origin: F. Incurable, L. Incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.

Source: Websters Dictionary


ciliary (iou)



ciliary adjective. L17.
[formed as CILIUM + -ARY1.]
Of or pertaining to the eyelashes or eyelids. L17.
ciliary body the part of the eye connecting the choroid to the iris. ciliary muscle an annular muscle within the ciliary body controlling the shape of the lens of the eye.
Of, pertaining to, caused by, or involving cilia (sense 3). M19.
Also ciliar adjective E17-E19.