Look up: palliative

1. palliative
   Type: Term Pronunciation: pal′ē-ă-tiv Definitions: 1. Reducing the severity of; denoting the alleviation of symptoms without curing the underlying disease.
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2. palliative
   [n] - remedy that alleviates pain without curing
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3. Palliative
   Refers to treatment that relieves symptoms but makes no attempt to cure the illness - Often used in relation to people dying from cancer. However, giving oxygen to someone with advanced lung disease, putting someone with kidney failure on dialysis and giving somebody with an arthritic knee a walking stick are all palliative therapies. Palliative ca …
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4. Palliative
   Treatment, which relieves, but does not cure disease. Often used in reference to treatments for terminal cancer
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5. Palliative
   Treatment that has no curative intent but is given to maintain quality of life and to relieve suffering in a terminally-ill patient.
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6. palliative
   a treatment given to relieve symptoms caused by fatal disease Category: Medicine
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7. Palliative
   Pal'li·a·tive adjective [ Confer French palliatif .] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
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8. Palliative
   Pal'li·a·tive noun That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.
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9. palliative
   1. Affording relief, but not cure. ... 2. An alleviating medicine. ... Origin: L. Palliatus = cloaked ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. palliative
    alleviant noun remedy that alleviates pain without curing
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11. palliative
    (pal´e-ә-tiv) giving relief but not curing. a drug with this effect.
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12. Palliative
    • (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. • (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
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13. palliative
    (L. palliatus cloaked) 1. affording relief, but not cure. 2. an alleviating medicine.
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14. palliative
    palliative 1. Reducing the severity of; denoting the alleviation of symptoms without curing the underlying disease. 2. An agent that alleviates or eases a painful or uncomfortable condition. 3. Serving to relieve (a disease) superficially or temporarily, or to mitigate or alleviate (pain or other suffering). 4. Serving to cloak or conceal.
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15. Palliative
    Action that relieves pain but is not curative.
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16. Palliative
    Treatment that relieves pain but is NOT curative.
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17. palliative
    In medicine, any treatment given to relieve symptoms rather than to cure the underlying cause. In conditions that will resolve of their own accord (for instance, the common cold) or that are incurable, the entire treatment may be palliative
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