incurability
Americannoun
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incurabilities
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Grief started the minute we got the diagnosis of its incurability.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2013
Often there was noted an hereditary element which was supposed to indicate incurability.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
So-called Incurability.—Patients are likely to hear entirely too much of the incurability of disease.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
This practical Epicureanism, this idle acquiescence in the supposed incurability of evil, poisoned all Seneca's career.
From Seekers after God by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
The fatality and incurability of malignant growths has done much to stimulate daring and marvelous operations in surgery.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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