Word Meanings - SANATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SANATORY)

• Remedial
• Sanatory
• sanative
• alterative
• ameliorative
• mitigating
• corrective
• curative
• healing
• restorative
• salubrious

Related words: (words related to SANATORY)

• MITIGATORY
  Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
• HEALING
  Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
• 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,
• MITIGATOR
  One who, or that which, mitigates.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• HEALD
  A heddle. Ure.
• HEALTHSOME
  Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak.
• REMEDIALLY
  In a remedial manner.
• HEALTHWARD
  In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
• HEALTH
  1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not
• HEALINGLY
  So as to heal or cure.
• HEALFUL
  Tending or serving to heal; healing. Ecclus. xv. 3.
• HEALALL
  A common herb of the Mint family , destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.
• SALUBRIOUS
  Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate. Syn. -- Healthful; wholesome; healthy; salutary. -- Sa-lu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Sa*lu"bri*ous*ness, n.
• HEALTHILY
  In a healthy manner.
• ALTERATIVE
  A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
• SELF-HEAL
  A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall.
• HEAL
  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
• DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
  Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
• LARYNGOTRACHEAL
  Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
• OXHEAL
  See BEAR'S-FOOT
• SHEAL
  See SHEELING