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Definition of Corrective

1. Noun. A device for treating injury or disease.

2. Adjective. Designed to promote discipline. "The mother was stern and disciplinary"

3. Adjective. Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition. "Corrective lenses"

Definition of Corrective

1. a. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.

2. n. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.

Definition of Corrective

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Corrective

1. 1. Counteracting, modifying, or changing what is injurious. 2. A drug that modifies or corrects an undesirable or injurious effect of another drug. Synonym: corrigent. Origin: L. Cor-rigo (conr-), pp. -rectus, to set right, fr. Rego, to keep straight (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrective

corrected dextrocardia corrected transposition of the great vessels correcter correctest correcting correction correction correctional correctional institution correctional rehabilitation

corrections correction collar correctitude correctitudes corrective (current term) corrective (current term) correctively correctives corrective emotional experience correctly

correctness correctnesses corrector correctors corrects Correggio Corregidor correlatable correlate correlated

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