The spread of the cancer requiredradical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, inAmerican Scientist[1], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on26 January 2012, page70:
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions,radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
(historical, 19th-century Britain,politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
(historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
(linguistics) Inlogographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed tophonetic.
The boy recognised the Chinese characters, though the calligraphy looked a bit strange, as if drawn by someone who had seen them and copied them outradical byradical without knowing what they meant.
(linguistics) InCeltic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be furthermutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
(linguistics) InSemitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up aroot.
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