CURATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curative mean? 

• CURATIVE (noun)
  The noun CURATIVE has 1 sense:

1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

  Familiarity information: CURATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CURATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CURATIVE has 1 sense:

1. tending to cure or restore to health

  Familiarity information: CURATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic

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))

• CURATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to cure or restore to health

Synonyms:

alterative; curative; healing; remedial; sanative; therapeutic

Context example:

therapeutic diets

Similar:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

Derivation:

cure (provide a cure for, make healthy again)

 Context examples 

Remnant of a tumor or cancer after primary, potentially curative therapy.

(Minimal Residual Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

To implant microbes or infective materials, introduce immune serum, vaccines of various kinds, and other antigenic materials for preventive, curative, or experimental purposes.

(Inoculation, NCI Thesaurus)

The active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.

(Hospice Care, NCI Thesaurus)

The discovery of a tumor or cancer after primary, potentially curative therapy.

(Detection of Minimal Residual Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Remainder of a tumor or a neoplasm/cancer after primary, potentially curative therapy.

(Minimal Residual Disease, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

It has PELLAGRA-curative, vasodilating, and antilipemic properties.

(Niacin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Complete surgical excision is usually curative.

(Pilomatricoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Any action or response, without curative intent, that mitigates some or all of the unpleasant effects of a disease or condition.

(Palliative, NCI Thesaurus)

Local enucleation of the tumor is curative.

(Odontogenic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Curative surgery works best for localized cancer.

(Curative surgery, NCI Dictionary)