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UNRELATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not connected by kinship
Classified under:
Similar:
unconnected (not connected by birth or family)
Antonym:
related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
Derivation:
unrelatedness (the lack of any particular manner of connectedness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking a logical or causal relation
Classified under:
Similar:
misrelated (mistakenly related)
orthogonal (statistically unrelated)
uncorrelated (not varying together)
Antonym:
related (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)
Derivation:
unrelatedness (the lack of any particular manner of connectedness)
Context examples:
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) I believe my pain is due to a medical condition unrelated to my primary disease.
(BPI - Describe Unrelated Medical Condition, NCI Thesaurus)
The others were from parents and control samples of unrelated people.
(Gene Disruptions Associated with Autism Risk, NIH)
Sequencing the gene in 5 unrelated children with similar symptoms revealed a total of 3 STING mutations in the patients that weren’t in any of their parents.
(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)
The two patients in this study are unrelated, one nine and the other 19 years old.
(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)
But these two subjects had been unrelated.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Both vaccines included portions of an unrelated virus to improve protein expression.
(DNA vaccines protect monkeys against Zika virus, NIH)
Pain in the chest unrelated to a heart disorder.
(Non-Cardiac Chest Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
Linifanib inhibits members of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor families; it exhibits much less activity against unrelated RTKs, soluble tyrosine kinases, or serine/threonine kinases.
(Linifanib, NCI Thesaurus)
A collection of unrelated materials that are used together to orchestrate dosage administration.
(Kit Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
An asymptomatic benign or malignant lesion discovered during an endoscopic, surgical, or radiologic procedure performed for unrelated reasons.
(Incidental Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
