Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.]
   Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal
   or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

         Statutes are declaratory or remedial.    --Blackstone.

         It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
         it is not remedial, not conservative.    --I. Taylor.

Source : WordNet®

remedial
     adj 1: tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial
            reading course"; "remedial education"
     2: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of
        herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial
        surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh
        air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn: {curative},
         {healing(p)}, {alterative}, {sanative}, {therapeutic}]