UNTREATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untreated mean? 

• UNTREATED (adjective)
  The adjective UNTREATED has 3 senses:

1. not given medical care or treatment

2. not subjected to chemical or physical treatment

3. (of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye

  Familiarity information: UNTREATED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTREATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not given medical care or treatment

Context example:

the untreated wounded lay on makeshift cots

Antonym:

treated (given medical care or treatment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not subjected to chemical or physical treatment

Context example:

an untreated fabric

Similar:

raw (not processed or refined)

Also:

unprocessed (not altered from an original or natural state)

Antonym:

treated (subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye

Similar:

unstained (not stained)

 Context examples 

Mice treated with ASO1 did not show clinical signs of disease for a median 250 days, or 82% longer than untreated mice (137 days), and they lived 81% longer than untreated mice (259 days versus 143 days).

(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)

If untreated, the disease is fatal, usually within the first year or two of life.

(Gene therapy restores immunity in infants with rare immunodeficiency disease, National Institutes of Health)

If left untreated, it may increase in size and destroy adjacent structures.

(Cholesteatoma, NCI Thesaurus)

ASC-H may be a sign of a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL), which may become cervical cancer if untreated.

(ASC-H, NCI Dictionary)

A question about the difference in an individual's breast size between the treated and untreated breast since treatment for breast cancer.

(Breast Size Difference Since Cancer Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

Left untreated, late manifestations involving the joints, heart, and nervous system can occur.

(Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

In three weeks, the axons grew as much as 12 millimeters, a rate about 500 times faster than untreated CNS axons.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)

A question about the difference in an individual's breast elevation between the treated and untreated breast since treatment for breast cancer.

(Breast Elevation Difference Since Cancer Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about the difference in an individual's breast shape between the treated and untreated breast since treatment for breast cancer.

(Breast Shape Difference Since Cancer Treatment, NCI Thesaurus)

Flies that were given Xi had lower levels of trehalose than did untreated germ-free flies.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)