Crossword clues for treatable
treatable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 dissolution.
--Hooker.
The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable
than with us.
--Sir W.
Temple.
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
a. able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
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.