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treatable
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Word definitions for treatable in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treatable \Treat"a*ble\, a. [OE. tretable, F. traitable, L. tractabilis. See Treat , and cf. Tractable .] Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] `` A treatable disposition, a strong memory.'' --R. Parr. A kind of treatable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "amenable to reason," from Anglo-French tretable , Old French traitable , and in part from treat (v.) + -able . Of wounds, diseases, etc., "receptive to treatment," early 15c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And there is precedent for treatable diseases persisting. ▪ Hopefully, it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hospital for minor surgery. ▪ However, psychological causes are seen as treatable ...
Usage examples of treatable.
It tended to strike men between the ages of 18 and 25 and was considered very treatable as cancers go, thanks to advances in chemotherapy, but early diagnosis and intervention were key.
That indicates that one in five persons, at least in the United States, will have a serious, diagnosable, and treatable mental disorder some time during their lifetime.
A fourteen-year-old boy diagnosed with acute leukemia, by then a treatable disease with an excellent prognosis for remission.
Eventually I found a doctor in Brockport who, instead of saying it’s not treatable, which the virus isn’t, he treated the infection with penicillin and Tylenol with codeine.
As well as suffering from undernourishment or exposure, conditions which are treatable, they displayed symptoms of respiratory distress associated with elevated temperature, or a wasting disease affecting the peripheral vascular and nervous systems.