1) Alleviation 2) Easement 3) Easing 4) Relief
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1) Mitigation 2) Relief
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• (n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. • (n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. • (n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
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Relief of symptoms and suffering caused by cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Palliation helps a patient feel more comfortable and improves the quality of life, but does not cure the disease.
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Pal`li·a'tion noun [ Confer French
palliation .]
1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the
palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
Bacon. 3. That which cloaks or covers...
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Palliation: To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely. Palliation cloaks a disease. To take a case, a 91-year-old man was found to have a tumor in his lung. He did not have chest surgery because of his age and the general rule that cancer moves more slowly with age. Instead, he had radiothera...
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Alleviation of clinical signs in the absence of specific treatment of the underlying disorder.
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n] - easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
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palliation, palliatory 1. The cloaking or concealing (of an act, etc.); that which serves to conceal or hide; a cloak, covering. 2. The action of disguising or seeking to make less conspicuous, the enormity of (a crime, etc.) by excuses and apologies; extenuation; excuse. 3. The alleviation of the symptoms and incidents of disease without curing it...
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Treatment which is given to control symptoms rather than cure disease - for example, palliative radiotherapy can be given to reduce pain.
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noun easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
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