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curable

adjective as in able to be improved, fixed

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Anencephaly – absence of parts of the brain and skull – is neither treatable nor curable with modern medicine.

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At this point, lupus is not curable, but it is manageable, and a big part of how to do that is through lifestyle habits like exercise, sleep, stress management, and diet.

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But it remains a curable illness, and one that does not require course after course of antibiotics.

Homosexuality must be curable, it argues, since the Torah would not forbid something which is impossible to avoid.

Diabesity is nearly 100 percent preventable, treatable, and very often curable.

Gangrene is not curable by current medical intervention once past a certain point in its progression, except by amputation.

How curable it is—caught soon enough—and how deadly it is if ignored.

It has been stated before that no attempt would be made in this paper to prove that epilepsy was curable by therapeutic means.

Cydalise probably accompanied Montes to Brazil, the only place where this horrible ailment is curable.

I wrote at once to the vet, telling him to telegraph "Curable" or "Hopeless," and to act accordingly.

She points out the necessity of a just discrimination between what is curable in the body politic and what has to be endured.

Dropsies in the chest either with or without anasarcous limbs, are much more curable than those of the belly.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to curable, such as: correctable, amenable, capable, corrigible, healable, and improvable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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