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CURATIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Synonyms:
curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("curative" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curative"):
acoustic (a remedy for hearing loss or deafness)
antidote; counterpoison (a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison)
emetic; nauseant; vomit; vomitive (a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting)
lenitive (remedy that eases pain and discomfort)
application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)
magic bullet (a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease)
balm; ointment; salve; unction; unguent (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation)
alleviant; alleviator; palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)
catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea (hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists)
preventative; preventive; prophylactic (remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease)
Holonyms ("curative" is a part of...):
intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to cure or restore to health
Example:
therapeutic diets
Synonyms:
alterative; curative; healing; remedial; sanative; therapeutic
Classified under:
Similar:
healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)
Derivation:
cure (provide a cure for, make healthy again)
Context examples:
Simple excision is almost always curative.
(Epithelioid Cell Type Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Local excision is curative and recurrences are very rare.
(Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
Complete surgical removal of the lesion may be curative.
(Bowen Disease of the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)
The overall prognosis of gastric adenocarcinomas is poor, even in patients who receive a "curative" resection (adapted from Sternberg's Surgical Pathology, 3rd ed., 1999).
(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Simple excision is usually curative.
(Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
Simple polypectomy is usually curative.
(Adenomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Complete excision is curative.
(Nodular Hidradenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgical excision is curative.
(Alveolar Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Surgical resection is often curative.
(Cerebellar Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Complete surgical excision is curative.
(Orbit Dermoid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)
