treatable

[ tree-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. able to be treated, especially medically:

   Some diseases are treatable but not curable.

Other Words From

• treata·bili·ty noun
• non·treata·ble adjective
• un·treata·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of treatable¹

treat + -able

Example Sentences

If employees are found with such conditions, the audit said, operators wouldn’t be forced to resign or transfer jobs because those conditions are treatable.

From Washington Post

While heat exhaustion, when caught, is treatable with fluids, rest, and a cooler environment, it can escalate into heat stroke, which can involve damage to the brain, kidneys, liver, and other internal organs.

From Popular-Science

Some cancers also may be slow-growing and are treatable despite a later diagnosis, but others are not.

From ProPublica

I think that that’s one of the reasons why they’re actually putting this pause on this is that this is something that’s treatable, but it’s treatable in a way that is different from how you would normally treat a blood clot situation.

From FiveThirtyEight

This meant that treatable cancers went undetected until they were advanced.

From MIT Technology Review

Thankful that I made it this far without fearing dying of a treatable illness because I had no insurance.

From The Daily Beast

For those with serious, but treatable conditions, these measures are life saving.

From The Daily Beast

This contact said the agent was treatable with Visostgman-Physostigmine, Alberodquisan, and Vitamin B6.

From The Daily Beast

The research in this area is clear: They are not treatable and these offenders pose the greatest risk to the public.

From The Daily Beast

They will be telling the world that childhood psychiatric and learning disorders are real, common, and treatable.

From The Daily Beast

Now, demoralization is not a treatable condition—not, certainly, in the medical sense.

From Project Gutenberg

Most psychological conditions (there are exceptions, as we will see) are not, at least at present, treatable in the medical sense.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the kings called the King of Ireland, and found him goodly and treatable.

From Project Gutenberg