English-French translations for curative

• curatif
  Il faut trouver de nouveaux traitements préventifs et curatifs plus efficaces, et surtout mieux adaptés aux populations locales. We need to find new preventive and curative treatments that are more effective, and more importantly better adapted to local populations.

Definition of curative

• Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness
• A substance that acts as a cure
• of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something

Examples

• The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

Related words

• noncurative
• curative power
• curative quality