treatable
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈtriːtəbl/
- Specialized
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tratable
- Erectile dysfunction has many causes, most of which are treatable, and is not inevitable.
- treatable disease
- treatable depression
- treatable cancer
Very much more rare, but very treatable.
- Very much more rare, but very treatable.
- And, and what I try to say to people in thinking about this is these are, you know, treatable, preventable diseases.
- OCD is tough, but it's treatable and OCD can help.
- So that's it's, it's a rare, many are, are treatable in utero.
- They could not only relieve the hospital beds for other treatable patient diseases, but also save resources.
- Like make sure make it so that if my grandma, he gets like, if my mom gets a treatable skin cancer, she gets to live and not go bankrupt.
- But afterwards, I actually had a lot of survivor's guilt afterwards because my, my cancer felt so treatable.
- Plus people get pissy when you're like, hey, that disease you have is perhaps treatable.
Examples
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A psychiatric consultation must be held to establish if the patient is suffering from treatable depression.
Academic text (2001) -
But I think it's treatable.
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Today, however, cancer is a far more treatable condition.
Academic text (2012) -
And it was supposed to be treatable.
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It's a perfectly treatable condition.
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It's treatable, but the vet needs to be paid first before anything else.
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But if we miss a treatable infection, he could die for lack of the right antibiotics.
Fiction book (1994) -
And yet this is a fully treatable cause of short stature.
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Testicular cancer is treatable and has a good prognosis, especially if detected early.
Academic text (2010) -
Jenny, appendicitis is serious, but it's easily treatable if we catch it early.
Synonyms
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4.1
Able to make someone healthy again with treatment
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6.6
A problem that can be fixed
Antonyms
How Treatable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Treatable comes from treat + -able; treat originally meant 'to handle' or 'deal with', and -able means 'can be'. So if something is treatable, it is something doctors can 'handle' or improve with medical care.