curative
adjective
curatively
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a word derived from
curative.
Example Sentences
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Early-stage lung cancers are not only difficult to diagnose—they’ve also proven difficult to curatively treat.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 7, 2022
The intelligent neurologist, nowadays, has practically no known specific for any form of nervous disease, no remedy which acts directly and curatively upon the nervous system itself.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
I see it every day in my Jane'—her maid, who is mesmerised for deafness, but not, I believe, with much success curatively.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
It is more probable that mental influence acted curatively even over tissue changes as it so often does, directly under our observation, in the production of such changes in the skin.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Perhaps the special volatile oil of the plant, in common with that contained in other herbs similarly aromatic, is curatively antiseptic.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
