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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non- +‎ radical

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Examples

  • What man or woman, confronting cancer, would willingly choose nonradical, or “conservative,” surgery?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • “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

  • 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

  • What man or woman, confronting cancer, would willingly choose nonradical, or “conservative,” surgery?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • “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

  • 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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