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curable Definition

cur·able (kyo̵orə bəl)

adjective

that can be cured

curable Related Forms

cur′·abil·ity (-bilə tē) noun

curable Synonyms

curable

modif.

treatable, improvable, remediable, reparable, corrigible, amenable to cure, susceptible to cure, subject to cure, medicable, not hopeless, correctable, capable of improvement, healable, restorable, mendable, reversible; see also reparable, temporary.

curable Usage Examples

Preposition: with

  • antibiotic: TB is now curable with antibiotics that must be taken for at least six months.
  • therapy: It is curable with multi-drug therapy and after only a few days on treatment, sufferers are no longer infectious.

Modifies a noun

  • illness: Private Medical Insurance is designed to cover only treatment for curable, short term illness or injury.
  • disease: About 17 million children die every year from easily curable diseases.
  • cancer: Yes, it is one of the most curable cancers around ( 95 percent of cases cured ).
  • condition: Private health insurance Private medical policies provide cover for the costs of private medical treatment for curable, short-term medical conditions.
  • STD: CONCLUSIONS Differences between trial populations included higher reported risk behavior and higher rates of curable STD in Mwanza compared to Rakai and Masaka.
  • coating: This paper will reveiw the background to the development of UV curable powder coatings and the current status of the technology.

Modifying Another Word

  • potentially: The great majority of tumors are potentially curable in their early stages.
  • easily: About 17 million children die every year from easily curable diseases.
  • highly: The patients who relapse are regrettably many for only 25 % of the total ovarian population present with the highly curable stage 1 disease.
  • now: TB is now curable with antibiotics that must be taken for at least six months.
  • not: Patients with cancer that is not curable often want to know how long they have left to live.
  • usually: Both develop in cells that produce thyroid hormones, but papillary cancer tends to grow slowly and is usually curable.

Used with adjective complement

become: Situations can change, medical advances are being made all the time, illness that is now incurable may become curable.

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