adjective / noun
curative
KYOOR-uh-tiv/ˈkjʊrətɪv/
Able or intended to restore health, or a treatment that does so.
The treatment had a curative purpose.
Etymology
Latin curare meant taking care of people and, in medicine, treating or curing them. Curative expresses the power to provide that healing, rather than care in a general sense.
In context
he not only cures himself through the intoning through the intoning of the text but then he himself becomes a a curative agent he is sent by the monk his teacher and cure to go heal other people
More examples
- The report distinguished curative care from symptom relief.
- Researchers investigated the compound's curative effects.
- The remedy was promoted as a curative, though evidence was limited.
Forms
curative · curatives
cure verb — restore health
Similar words
- therapeutic
- Therapeutic benefits health; curative specifically aims to cure.
- palliative
- Palliative relieves symptoms or suffering without necessarily curing the condition.