treatable

English

Etymology

treat +‎ -able

Adjective

treatable (comparative more treatable, superlative most treatable)

  1. Able to be treated; not incurable or intractable.
    In the 1980s, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.
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