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Treatable

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be treated; not incurable.

    "In the 1980s, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high."

  2. 2
    Not intractable; moderate. dated

Etymology

From Middle English tretable, from treten (“treat”) and Old French traitable, Anglo-Norman tretable; equivalent to treat + -able.

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