Definition of Curative

1. Noun. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.


2. Adjective. Tending to cure or restore to health. "Therapeutic diets"
Exact synonyms: Alterative, Healing, Remedial, Sanative, Therapeutic
Similar to: Healthful
Derivative terms: Cure, Remedy

Definition of Curative

1. a. Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

Definition of Curative

1. Adjective. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Curative

1. something that cures [n -S]

Medical Definition of Curative

1. Tending to overcome disease and promote recovery. Origin: L. Curare = to take care of This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curative

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Literary usage of Curative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws by Henry Campbell Black (1911)
"curative statutes, whether relating to judicial or administrative action, ... curative statutes are those which undertake to cure errors and irregularities ..."

2. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"intention of the legislature to validate the subscription or the bonds must clearly appear from the terms of the curative act. An oblique validation, or one ..."

3. Due Process of Law Under the Federal Constitution by Lucius Polk McGehee (1906)
"Chapter vivorship property held in joint tenancy;8 and a wife's expectation of dower in her husband's lands so long as the husband is alive.9 curative acts. ..."

4. Commentaries on the Modern Law of Municipal Corporations: Including Public by John Wilson Smith, Charles Fisk Beach (1903)
"In such case the ordinance may be rendered valid by a curative ordinance, ... And in the absence of a constitutional limitation the curative act may be by ..."

5. Void Execution, Judicial and Probate Sales: And the Legal and Equitable by Abraham Clark Freeman (1890)
"curative Statutes Upheld by Supreme Court of United States. 57. curative ... curative Statutes Confirming Void Judicial Proceedings. 59. ..."

6. English Poor Law Policy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1910)
"These are the Principle of curative Treatment, the Principle of Universal Provision, and the Principle of Compulsion. (i.) The Principle of curative ..."

7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"Agglutination and Immunity; curative Antiserum. ... A curative serum has been prepared by Flexner and ..."

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