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Origin of curable1350–1400; Middle English (<Middle French ) <Latin cūrābilis, equivalent to cūrā(re) to care for (derivative of cūra care) + -bilis-ble OTHER WORDS FROM curablecur·a·bil·i·ty, cur·a·ble·ness, nouncur·a·bly, adverbun·cur·a·ble, adjectiveun·cur·a·ble·ness, noun un·cur·a·bly, adverb Words nearby curablecupule, cupuliform cataract, cupulogram, cupulometry, cur, curable, Curaçao, curacy, Cur. adv. vult, curagh, curandera Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for curableBut it remains a curable illness, and one that does not require course after course of antibiotics. Predator Doctors Take Advantage of Patients With ‘Chronic Lyme’ Scam|Russell Saunders|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Homosexuality must be curable, it argues, since the Torah would not forbid something which is impossible to avoid. Gay Orthodox Jews Sue Over Therapy That Claims to ‘Cure’ Them|Zoë Blackler|November 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST Diabesity is nearly 100 percent preventable, treatable, and very often curable. The Real Fight Over Health Care Should Be Against Diabetes and Obesity|Mark Hyman, MD|March 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST Gangrene is not curable by current medical intervention once past a certain point in its progression, except by amputation. Can Meditation Cure Disease?|Maureen Seaberg|December 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
How curable it is—caught soon enough—and how deadly it is if ignored. Carly's Cancer Warning|Dana Goldstein|November 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST They certainly behave as if that were the matter, and it seems a rational explanation of ordinary insanity, curable or incurable. The Little City Of Hope|F. Marion Crawford Here the patient is usually kept during the remainder of the curable stage of his malady. Curiosities of Civilization|Andrew Wynter The last variety is curable; the former one scarcely ever so. Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II|Arnold Cooley All types are curable, and when upon the non-hairy regions, usually readily so; upon the scalp it is often obstinate. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon In 1725, the mentally ill were classified as curable or incurable. Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.|S. A. Reilly
British Dictionary definitions for curableDerived forms of curablecurability or curableness, nouncurably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to curablecorrectable, amenable, capable, corrigible, healable, improvable, mendable, not too bad, reparative, restorable Medical definitions for curable
adj.Capable of being cured or healed. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |