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61healing — adj 1. curing, curative, restoring, restorative, remedial, medicinal, therapeutic, corrective, analeptic, sanative, sanatory. 2. recovering, recuperating, mending, on the mend, feeling better, feeling oneself; improving, showing improvement,… …
62medical — adj healing, curative, therapeutic, therapeutical, sanative, sanatory, remedial; medicinal, medicative, restorative, Med. analeptic, salutiferous, health bringing, salutary, corrective, tonic, febrifugal, palliative, Med. Obs. alterative, Archaic …
63reformatory — adj 1. reformative, reforming, corrective, correcting, emendatory, remedial; restorative, restoring, medicinal, restitutive, restitutory; therapeutic, curative, curing, sanative, sanatory, healing, recuperative, recuperatory. 2. reform school,… …
64remedial — adj corrective, reparative, reparatory, mending, restorative, restoring, restitutive, restitutory, recuperative, recuperatory; curative, therapeutic, medicinal, Rare. medical, tonic, curing, healing, sanative, sanatory; beneficial, advantageous,… …
65therapeutic — adj therapeutical, curative, medicinal, medical, curing, healing, sanative, sanatory; remedial, corrective, reparative, reparatory; mending, restorative, restoring, recuperative, recuperatory; beneficial, advantageous, helpful, salutary,… …
66curative — [adj] healing, health giving alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick me up*, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm*, therapeutic, tonic …
67remedial — [adj] healing, restorative alleviative, antidotal, antiseptic, corrective, curative, curing, healthful, health giving, invigorating, medicating, medicinal, purifying, recuperative, reformative, remedying, repairing, restitutive, sanative,… …
68sanitary — [adj] clean, germ free healthful, healthy, hygienic, prophylactic, purified, salubrious, sanative, sterile, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted, unsullied, wholesome; concept 621 Ant. dirty, diseased, polluted, unsanitary …
69therapeutic — [adj] healing ameliorative, analeptic, beneficial, corrective, curative, good, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative; concept 537 Ant. damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious, untherapeutic …
70surgery — Greek words signifying the hand and work. Originally, it was part of the profession of barbers, but later was taken up by physicians and now is recognized as that branch of medical science which treats of mechanical or operative measures for… …
