See Also: radioinsensitive(medicine)

unpolished (iou) and radioinsensitive (medicine)


unpolished (iou)



unpolished adjective. LME.
[from UN-1 + polished pa. pple of POLISH verb.]
Not made smooth or bright by polishing. LME.
Inelegant in respect of style, language, etc.; not refined in behaviour; uncultured; crude. L15.
Gibbon The unpolished wives of the barbarians. F. W. Farrar It cannot be Chrysippus; the Greek is too modern, and too unpolished.
unpolishable adjective L17.

radioinsensitive (medicine)


radioinsensitive


Not sensitive to X-rays and Other forms of radiant energy. For example, a tumour may unfortunately be radioinsensitive. The opposite of radiosensitive.