curability
Capacity for recovery
Curability is the quality of being curable—the possibility that a disease, condition, or problem can be remedied.
Medical discussions often address the curability of cancers at various stages: Early detection dramatically improves curability.
The term appears in clinical contexts more than everyday speech.
Able to recover
- treatableCapable of being cured
- manageableAble to be controlled
- reversibleAble to be undone
- recoverableAble to be regained
responsive · correctable · improvable · survivable · operable · resectable · remediable · mendable
Capable of being cured
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- prognosisPredicted disease course
treatment · chemotherapy · immunotherapy · radiation · surgery · antibiotics · vaccine · pharmacology
Remaining alive against odds
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- life expectancyAverage anticipated survival duration
- mortalityState of eventual death
recurrence · progression · recovery rate · metastasis · staging · chronic · acute · terminal
Restoration of health
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- convalescencePost-illness healing phase
- recuperationGradual return to health
restoration · regeneration · resilience · improvement · renewal · bounceback · overcome · full recovery
healable
Able to recover
- treatableCapable of being cured
- manageableAble to be controlled
- reversibleAble to be undone
recoverable · responsive · correctable · improvable · survivable · operable · resectable · remediable · mendable · salvageable
treatable
Capable of being cured
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
prognosis · treatment · chemotherapy · immunotherapy · radiation · surgery · antibiotics · vaccine · pharmacology · prescription
survival
Remaining alive against odds
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- life expectancyAverage anticipated survival duration
mortality · recurrence · progression · recovery rate · metastasis · staging · chronic · acute · terminal · benign
healing
Restoration of health
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- convalescencePost-illness healing phase
recuperation · restoration · regeneration · resilience · improvement · renewal · bounceback · overcome · full recovery · partial recovery
curabilityincurability
Cannot be healed
incurableness · intractability · untreatable · irremediability · irreversibility
curabilityterminality
State of having bounds
fatality · hopelessness · irreversibility · inevitability · lethality
cure, cured, curing, cures, curable, incurable, curate, curator, curative