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"an intractable disposition" "intractable pain" "the most intractable issue of our era" "intractable metal"adjectivenot tractable; difficult to manage or moldOpposite:
Definition that contains intractable
- psychosurgery brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
- rhizotomy surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms
- zollinger-ellison syndrome syndrome consisting of intractable peptic ulceration with gastric hypersecretion and hyperacidity
- callosectomy severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)
- callosotomy severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy)
- intractably in an intractable manner