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treatable

adjective

  1. able to be treated (especially medically)
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Wiktionary

adj

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

  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. Not intractable; moderate.