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Thesaurus: sanatory

Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.

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  1. a. Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
  2. Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.
  3. Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative;sanative.Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such asquarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.
  4. a. Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.