UNRELATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrelated mean? 

• UNRELATED (adjective)
  The adjective UNRELATED has 2 senses:

1. lacking a logical or causal relation

2. not connected by kinship

  Familiarity information: UNRELATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRELATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking a logical or causal relation

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not connected by kinship

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)

 Context examples 

Patients who die from causes unrelated to the disease are not counted in this measurement.

(Cause-specific survival, NCI Dictionary)

In addition, the Listeria vector itself may induce a potent innate and adaptive immunity unrelated to mesothelin expression.

(Live-Attenuated Listeria Encoding Human Mesothelin Vaccine CRS-207, NCI Thesaurus)

This structural motif is found in a wide variety of unrelated proteins.

(Leucine-Rich Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

The donor might be a family member or unrelated person.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The complication may be caused by the disease, procedure, or treatment or may be unrelated to them.

(Complication, NCI Dictionary)

They are unrelated to the DENDRITIC CELLS associated with T-cells.

(Murine Follicular Dendritic Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This subfamily is the C-2-type and includes glycoproteins and other unrelated proteins with immunoglobulin domains eg. carcinoembryonic antigens and fibroblast growth factor receptors.

(Immunoglobulin-Like C2-Type Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): unrelated, unlikely, possible, probable, definite (for adverse events in respect to CTEP and FAET)related, possibly related, unlikely related, not related (for adverse events in respect to SDTM & E2B)

(Evaluated Activity Relationship Probability Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The functional significance of EGF domains in what appear to be unrelated proteins is not yet clear.

(EGF-Like Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

This is often a sister or brother, but could be an unrelated donor.

(Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)