CURABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curable mean? 

• CURABLE (adjective)
  The adjective CURABLE has 2 senses:

1. able to be cured or healed

2. capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent

  Familiarity information: CURABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Able to be cured or healed

Context example:

curable diseases

Antonym:

incurable (incapable of being cured)

Derivation:

curability; curableness (capability of being cured or healed)

cure (provide a cure for, make healthy again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent

Similar:

hardened; tempered; toughened; treated (made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment)

Derivation:

cure (make (substances) hard and improve their usability)

 Context examples 

If found early, these cancers are often curable.

(Head and Neck Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

This type of leukemia is not considered to be curable with available therapy.

(Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Measurement of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood can be used to detect disease recurrence in patients with a curable form of cancer known as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

(Circulating tumor DNA in blood can predict recurrence of the most common type of lymphoma, NIH)

Emphysema is not curable, but treatments help manage the disease.

(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)

DLBCL is usually curable, but it recurs in up to 40% of patients and is then often incurable.

(Tumor DNA in Blood Reveals Lymphoma Progression, NIH)

Pituitary tumors are usually curable.

(Pituitary Tumors, NIH)