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Word Meanings - REMEDIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,

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Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.

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  • RESTORATIVELY
    In a restorative manner.
  • SANITARY
    Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.
  • INVIGORATION
    The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.
  • REMEDIAL
    Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
  • REMEDIALLY
    In a remedial manner.
  • HYGIENICS
    The science of health; hygiene.
  • HYGIENIC
    Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
  • INVIGORATE
    To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury. Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.
  • THERAPEUTIC
    One of the Therapeutæ.
  • RESTORATIVE
    Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.
  • THERAPEUTICS
    That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.
  • COMPENSATORY
    Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.
  • THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL
    Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and
  • SANATORY
    Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded.
  • SANATIVE
    Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n.
  • CURATIVE
    Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.
  • REINVIGORATE
    To invigorate anew.
  • INSANITARY
    Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
  • DISINVIGORATE
    To enervate; to weaken. Sydney Smith.
  • ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
    The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
  • PREPARATORY
    Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
  • HYDROTHERAPEUTICS
    A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

 

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