(v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(2) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(3) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
(4) However, the number of those with blastformation rates over 40% decreased markedly in the curative cases of gastric cancer Stage II to stage IV.
(5) From 1975 to 1987, 170 unresectable esophageal carcinomas were curatively irradiated.
(6) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(7) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
(8) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
(9) Further studies are needed to assess the curative efficacy with different dosage regimens.
(10) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
(11) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
(12) Salbutamol showed the same protective and curative effect in 30 patients proved in the same way as described before.
(13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
(14) The development of dental policy may be benefited by modifying the curative-treatment model of care to one that is preventive-behavioralist oriented.
(15) Detection of free malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity following curative resections of colorectal cancer may explain why some patients develop local or peritoneal recurrence after favourable operations.
(16) Echography is the method of choice for the study of hydatidosis, since it permits the diagnosis of cysts, the long-term monitoring of patients, and via the use of an echo-guided needle, the performance of cytological, chemical and cultural studies, as well as curative treatment by means of percutaneous drainage and sterilisation with alcohol.
(17) Fifty-seven patients with poor prognostic factors following resection with curative intent for gastric adenocarcinoma (T3 or T4, positive lymph nodes, positive resection line) received adjuvant radiotherapy.
(18) In the absence of any curative treatment, surgery was required to relieve obstruction and an operation was performed via an antero-lateral extra-pharyngeal approach.
(19) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
(20) Unfortunately, despite being a much better tolerated curative procedure involving a very brief hospitalization, the use of high-energy direct current (DC) shocks is associated with a low but significant incidence of serious complications including cardiac perforation, hypotension, coronary artery spasm, and late occurrence of ventricular fibrillation.
Vulnerary
Definition:
(a.) Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions.
(n.) A vulnerary remedy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macroscopically, findings up to day 7 in the transplanted group revealed slightly stronger changes with respect to vulnerary fossae, edema-like swelling ruber than those in the control group and slight changes at 14 and then later.
(2) In order to macroscopically and pathohistologically study the healing process of vulnerary regions after resection of transplanted tumors, we transplanted VX2 carcinoma into the tongue of rabbits and conducted partial resection of the tongue which had taken the carcinoma in the early stage.
(3) The results confirmed that the healing process of the vulnerary region in cases of partial resection of the tongue transplanted tumor was slightly delayed even in carcinoma at an early stage, and quite term effects remained.
(4) The vulnerary effects of EGF were evaluated in a model of wound repair, the polyvinyl alcohol sponge implanted subcutaneously in rats.
(5) Pathohistologically, the transplanted group showed delayed regeneration of vulnerary mucopithelium, strong inflammatory cellular infiltration, strong atrophy and disappearance of myofieber, and irregular running of myofiber bundle.
(6) The results of this small, descriptive study suggest rPDGF-BB is a potent vulnerary agent for accelerating soft-tissue repair, warranting further study.
(7) Thus, the vulnerary effects of PDGF-BB were transient and fully reversible in both wound healing models.