curable
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈkjʊrəbəl/
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curable
- HIV is basically curable now.
- curable disease
- curable infection
- curable stage
And she's going to want to say, do whatever you can do if this is a curable cancer.
- And she's going to want to say, do whatever you can do if this is a curable cancer.
- But you know when when we know that we can't cure people of curable diseases because they don't come into the system, we have to fix that first.
- And putting sunscreen on has a very small reduction in skin cancer risk for cancers that are very, very curable.
- And for him to be diagnosed that way with Perkins lymphoma, which is a cancer that is not curable.
- And I don't know if they're it's curable from their standpoint.
Examples
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Many forms of childhood cancer have gone from being a death sentence to a curable disease.
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Not a day goes by without a child in my care dying of some curable illness.
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But it was common and easily curable provided you got it at stage one.
Fiction book (1992) -
One could also ask, is this even curable or do we just need to live with it?
Blog text (26) -
Bowel cancer diagnosed in the earlier stages can be curable.
Academic text (2010) -
However, it is one of the most preventable cancers and one of the most curable if it is caught early enough.
Academic text (2010) -
In most cases, the tumors are curable with radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy.
Blog text (12) -
Daniel Hauser has what doctors consider one of the most curable types of cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Blog text (18) -
But it was common and easily curable provided you got it at stage one.
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Colon cancer is 95 percent treatable, even curable, if it's detected extremely early.
Synonyms
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3.5
A condition a doctor or medicine can cure
Antonyms
How Curable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Curable comes from the old word curare, which means 'to care for', and it is the same root as cure and care. So something curable can be healed or made better.