Definitions
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- adjective Not
radical . - noun One who is not a
radical . - noun chemistry That which is not a
radical (group of atoms that function as a unit in reactions).
Etymologies
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Examples
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What man or woman, confronting cancer, would willingly choose nonradical, or “conservative,” surgery?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Her mass reduced so rapidly, Keynes thought he might be able to perform a rather minimal, nonradical surgery on her to completely remove it.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Her mass reduced so rapidly, Keynes thought he might be able to perform a rather minimal, nonradical surgery on her to completely remove it.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“We clean out or strip the supraclavicular fossa with very few exceptions,” he announced at a surgical conference, reinforcing the notion that conservative, nonradical surgery left the breast somehow “unclean.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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With his own trial, the NSABP-04 the trial to test radical surgery versus nonradical surgery barely limping along, he could hardly convince surgeons to join a trial to combine chemo and surgery in breast cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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What man or woman, confronting cancer, would willingly choose nonradical, or “conservative,” surgery?
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Even so, obsessed with Halstedian theory and unable to see beyond its realm, surgeons sharply berated such attempts at nonradical surgery.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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With his own trial, the NSABP-04 the trial to test radical surgery versus nonradical surgery barely limping along, he could hardly convince surgeons to join a trial to combine chemo and surgery in breast cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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“We clean out or strip the supraclavicular fossa with very few exceptions,” he announced at a surgical conference, reinforcing the notion that conservative, nonradical surgery left the breast somehow “unclean.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Even so, obsessed with Halstedian theory and unable to see beyond its realm, surgeons sharply berated such attempts at nonradical surgery.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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