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curative /ˈkjʊərətɪv /adjectiveAble to cure disease: the curative properties of herbs...- Most governments ban distributors from making any claims about disease prevention or curative properties.
- We included data on oesophageal and gastric operations for malignant and benign disease with palliative or curative intent.
- Posters portraying symptoms, preventive and curative aspects for diseases, tips for first aid and healthy diet also form part of the auditorium.
Synonyms healing, therapeutic, medicinal, remedial, curing, corrective; restorative, tonic, health-giving, healthful, sanative rare febrifugal, vulnerary, analeptic, iatric nounA curative medicine or agent.Since many of the men had been captured because they were too wounded or sick to escape, and since prison life offered no curatives for recovery, death was a daily occurrence in every Civil War prison....- Many of the objects mentioned above have been credited with beneficial or medicinal properties, and prescribed in one form or another as curatives or aphrodisiacs.
- It governs the healing principle so it has signification over herbs that are all-round curatives, such as selfheal (prunella).
Derivativescuratively adverb ...- At present, there is some evidence that retinoid or high-dose vitamin A chemoprevention may reduce the recurrence rate and improve the disease-free interval in patients curatively resected for stage I lung cancer.
- We sprayed curatively and we were able to increase our spray intervals.
- ‘We combat many insect problems curatively with sprays, but the emerald ash borer is a completely different story,’ said Lang.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'relating to cures'): from French curatif, -ive, from medieval Latin curativus, from Latin curare (see cure). |