unoperatedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈɒpəreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈɑpəˌreɪdᵻd/ 1. unoperated upon adj. †(a) (in predicative use) not operated or acted upon (obsolete); (b) Surgery = sense 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adjective] > relating to operation > not operated on
uncut1548
unoperated upon1798
unoperated1824
1798 J. Allen Speech House of Representatives 11 Policy calls upon us to defend ourselves in the best manner we are able, unoperated upon by any thing which has taken place heretofore.
1802 Noble Wanderers I. 37 Native energy..which, unoperated upon by adversity,..remains an inactive principle in the mind.
1811 A. Monro Morbid Anat. Human Gullet Appendix p. ii Not one man had died within these walls during that period, with a strangulated hernia unoperated upon.
1878 Sci. Amer. 11 May 290/2 The pile of the velvet which passes into the sunken parts of the roller is unoperated upon.
1908 Guy's Hosp. Gaz. 11 July 273/1 It is better to operate on a patient with pneumonia than to leave a patient with peritonitis unoperated upon, because there is the possibility of pneumonia being present.
2012 H. McLean in A. Crawford et al. Body & Soul xvii. 95 I closed the new eye and looked at this phenomenon with my other, unoperated-upon, eye.
2. Surgery. That has not undergone surgery (cf. operate v. 4). Also in unoperated on.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adjective] > relating to operation > not operated on
uncut1548
unoperated upon1798
unoperated1824
1824 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 21 492 The whole aliment in the unoperated animal..had been transmitted into the intestines.
1848 Veterinarian 21 402 The duration of the milk in the castrated cow, although at all times much longer than in the cow unoperated on, is nevertheless variable.
1881 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 503/2 No unoperated cases [of epithelioma of the tongue] appear to live over eighteen months.
1910 E. Cautley Dis. Infants & Children lxxxi. 985 One [case of glioma] was bilateral, unoperated on and fatal.
1975 Year Bk. Ear, Nose & Throat 119 Increased uptake in the unoperated ear.
2008 D. Sell in M. Mars et al. Managem. Cleft Lip & Palate in Developing World xv. 179 It has been common practice for surgical teams from the Developed World to undertake visits to Developing Countries in order to perform surgery on unoperated patients.
3. Not operated; not in active operation.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [adjective] > put forward > not
unproposed1634
unoperated1874
unhinted1889
1874 Acts 98th Legislature State New Jersey Index 165 Receiver may be appointed for an unoperated road, to operate the same.
1905 Motor World 21 Dec. 629/1 The cost of maintenance of unoperated factories.
1937 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 10 164 A well-integrated natural-gas system possesses control of large amounts of..prospective, but unoperated, gas acreage.
2006 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 12 Dec. b3 The DEC [Dept. of Environmental Conservation] could not locate a contractor to run the site, and it was left unoperated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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