therapeutic

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Recovering from illness
back on your feetidiom
bed rest
clear (something) up
colour
convalescence
convalescent
curability
curable
curably
foot
reablement
recovery
recuperate
recuperation
recuperative
regress
regression
regressive
respond
sleep

Examples of curative

curative
Memories were recovered through flashbacks that brought with them a return of the original experience, to curative or revelatory effect.
Treatment options are limited and none is curative.
Of the palliative options mentioned, some, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, could also be life-prolonging or even curative.
Disease/medical information was most wanted at the transition from curative to palliative care and least wanted at patient death.
Moreover, moral managers understood that the organizational and curative goals of moral management were strictly dependent upon each other for success.
Patients found infected with schistosomes were provided with a curative dose of praziquantel.
A distinction was made between excision of a benign lesion (excision biopsy) and of a malignant lesion (curative, malignant surgery).
In symptomatic children not fulfilling requirements of age or size for curative surgery, an aortopulmonary shunt was created as a bridge to definitive therapy.
Because the driving goals behind medical care are curative, death is seen as a failure or an enemy.
However, in the intensive care unit futility is in the eye of the few beholders who see patient care according to the curative mode.
This is an important contribution, given the usual tendency of public health historians to assume attention had switched after 1900 to curative services.
The song, in effect, was the curative action.
Removal of the offending toxin is usually curative.
The term "providers" in this paper means health care workers in county, township, and village curative and preventive health care facilities.
Put otherwise, the expanding body of terms about insanity also contributed to the curative goal of moral management.
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