What's the difference between treatable and untreatable?
Treatable
Definition:
(a.) Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(2) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(3) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
(4) There is no specific therapy for this disease, but it is important to distinguish the cardiac and gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease from those of other treatable causes.
(5) However, panniculitis leading to the discovery of chronic pancreatitis with a surgically treatable ductal abnormality has not been previously reported.
(6) To determine whether the use of dimenhydrinate was associated with delay in the diagnosis and management of treatable illnesses or with direct adverse effects in children with vomiting presenting to an emergency department.
(7) Since toxoplasmosis is a potentially treatable opportunistic infection, diagnosis allows the swift institution of anti-Toxoplasma therapy.
(8) The concept of psychopathic disorders has persisted in mental health legislation despite doubts as to its validity as a diagnosis and its treatability.
(9) A potentially treatable cause was found in 10.7% of all demented patients, the most common being metabolic disorders, meningioma, hydrocephalus, subdural haematoma, and depressive pseudodementia.
(10) Optic neuropathy in HIV-positive patients does not necessarily carry a poor prognosis even when a treatable cause is not found.
(11) Since basilar artery thrombosis is now a treatable condition, early diagnosis and documentation of functional deficits moves into a more important clinical area than heretofore.
(12) In many countries, poor access to medicine and health clinics should also be addressed, the report said, noting that an estimated 1.3 million adolescents died from preventable or treatable diseases in 2012.
(13) The value and role of CT cranial scanning in the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis is discussed and the importance of recognizing potentially treatable causes of both intellectual impairment and cytomegalovirus-related neuropathies is stressed.
(14) There are rationally treatable fears arising from the acute situation (especially in rehabilitation patients) as well as the irrational anxieties of the mainly endogenous depressive.
(15) Because of the abrupt clinical deterioration seen with MCAD deficiency, as well as its treatable nature and its genetic implications, this disorder presents a significant challenge for family physicians.
(16) Acalculous cholecystitis is an unusual but serious variant of a common disorder in which treatable gallbladder disease may masquerade as a less treatable liver malady.
(17) Babies who died during the course of potentially treatable disease had more adverse family and social factors: the parents were less likely to be owner occupiers, or own a car or telephone, their mothers were more likely to be young, to smoke, and to present late in pregnancy.
(18) This disease, due to C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency, is potentially fatal but easily treatable.
(19) Illness caused by medications is arguably the most significant treatable geriatric health problem.
(20) Therefore, once the diagnosis of malignancy is confirmed by clinical examination followed by histology, further investigations should be limited to a search for treatable malignancies only.
Untreatable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being treated; not practicable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(3) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(6) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(7) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
(8) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
(9) There was no difference in triglyceride content or phospholipid species between WKY rats and untreated SHR, except for a higher cholesterol content in SHR.
(10) In 290 patients with untreated carcinoma of the bladder the deoxyribonucleic acid properties, as measured by flow cytometry, of 3 random mucosal biopsies were studied and compared to those of the exophytic tumors.
(11) In both the untreated condition and during substitution therapy, Lp(a) levels were higher in patients than in healthy controls, probably due to a relatively high frequency of the small Lp(a) phenotypes in our patients.
(12) The rats were treated orally with GeO2 for 13 weeks (GeO2 group) and were compared with those treated with GeO2 for only the first 4 weeks (GeO2-4-week group) and with untreated controls.
(13) During a postcyclophosphamide rebound neutrophilia, serum CSA was undetectable; inhibitor levels were similar to those measured in untreated controls.
(14) There was a similar and statistically significant decrease in lesion size when the treated dogs (about 50 mm2) were compared to the untreated dogs (77 mm2).
(15) Whereas the untreated Rhodobacter growth medium was contaminated with 1.2 ppb Mo, as analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), the activated carbon-treated medium was below the ICP-MS detection limit (less than 0.05 ppb).
(16) Hemoglobin levels were higher in androgen-treated patients than in the untreated population and were directly related to the reticulocyte index.
(17) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(18) The N-myc gene (oncogene) is constitutively expressed in untreated Y79 cells but its mRNA levels also decreased following cadmium treatment.
(19) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(20) Furthermore, at sacrifice, 7 days after the initiation of the disease, the concentration of circulating PAF in treated as well as untreated rats was normal.