inoperable
not operable or practicable.
Medicine/Medical. not admitting of a surgical operation because the pathological condition is not amenable to cure by surgery or because of undue risk.: Compare operable (def. 1).
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How to use inoperable in a sentence
Her cancer relapsed the following year with several new, inoperable brain tumors.
St. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their Savings | by David Armstrong and Ryan Gabrielson | November 12, 2021 | ProPublicaAsh blanketed the solar charging panels of UV spectrometers meant to measure gas, rendering them inoperable for months.
How to study a volcano when it destroys your lab | Sarah Emerson | October 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceEven still, Kim said she expects supporters to move forward on a 2022 ballot measure that would strike the inoperable language from the books, for good measure.
Politics Report: The 180-Degree Shift in Union Construction Politics | Andrew Keatts | July 17, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIn May 2019, my dad was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer.
Past analysis failed to control for equipment that was transferred between agencies, unused, or otherwise inoperable.
New Studies Say Demilitarizing Police Departments Does Not Increase Crime | Kirsten West Savali | December 11, 2020 | Essence.com
But momentum is building to force manufacturers to install ‘kill switches’ that render stolen phones inoperable.
ABC News reported Monday morning that Scott had inoperable brain cancer.
Tony Scott’s Death a Reminder of the Quiet Scourge of Elderly Suicide | Eliza Shapiro | August 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA week ago, Bill called to tell me that he had pancreatic cancer and that it was inoperable.
Similarly, at the present time, post-basic meningitis of infants is rightly deemed inoperable.
In inoperable cases benefit may follow the use of the X-rays, or of radium.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. | Alexander MilesThe fourth case supposes the cancer is inoperable but the child viable.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation | Austin O'MalleyThe third case is that of an inoperable cancer and an inviable child.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation | Austin O'Malley
British Dictionary definitions for inoperable
/ (ɪnˈɒpərəbəl, -ˈɒprə-) /
incapable of being implemented or operated; unworkable
surgery not suitable for operation without risk, esp (of a malignant tumour) because metastasis has rendered surgery useless
Derived forms of inoperable
- inoperability or inoperableness, noun
- inoperably, adverb
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