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Curative

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

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

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Acoustic 76% connected

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

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Alleviator 76% connected

One who, or that which, alleviates.

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Antidote 76% connected

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote agains…

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Application 76% connected

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Balm 76% connected

An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.

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Catholicon 76% connected

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

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Emetic 76% connected

Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.

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Lenitive 76% connected

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

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Lotion 76% connected

A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

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Nauseant 76% connected

A substance which produces nausea.

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Nostrum 76% connected

A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medici…

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Ointment 76% connected

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

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Palliative 76% connected

Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

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Panacea 76% connected

A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.

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Preventative 76% connected

That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

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Preventive 76% connected

Going before; preceding.

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Prophylactic 76% connected

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

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Salve 76% connected

Hail!

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Unction 76% connected

The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, me…

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Unguent 76% connected

A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Vomitive 76% connected

Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.

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Medicament 76% connected

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

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Medication 76% connected

The act or process of medicating.

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Medicine 76% connected

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

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Cure 74% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Cure 74% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Intervention 70% connected

The act of intervening; interposition.

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Treatment 70% connected

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

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Alterative 92% connected

Causing ateration.

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Cure 92% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Healing 92% connected

of Heal

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Remedial 92% connected

Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

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Remedy 92% connected

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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Sanative 92% connected

Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.

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Therapeutic 92% connected

Alt. of Therapeutical

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