Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending or serving to palliate.
- adjective Alleviating the symptoms of a disease or disorder, especially one that is terminal, when a cure is not available.
- noun One that palliates, especially a palliative drug or medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Palliating; extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.
- Mitigating or alleviating, as pain or disease.
- noun That which extenuates: as, a palliative of guilt.
- noun That which mitigates, alleviates, or abates, as the violence of pain, disease, or other evil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.
- noun That which palliates; a palliative agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Minimising the progression of a
disease and relievingundesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usuallyincurable ) disease. - noun medicine Something that
palliates , particularly a palliativemedicine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun remedy that alleviates pain without curing
- adjective moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Etymologies
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Examples
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She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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By what we term palliative treatment alone more cures are effected than by the old process of treatment with nitric acid.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Rather than shirking from the term palliative care, they have thrown their weight and credibility behind it in a further effort to educate clinicians and consumers about palliative care and to reduce stigma associated with the term.
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The getting-over-it approach is to continue to actively work to reduce and debunk the misconceptions and stigma associated with the term palliative care.
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Most of the patients they see in palliative care was cancer patients, but they are now seeing more cardiovascular problems, respiratory cases, HIV/AIDS, and end-stage cardiac or renal disease.
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Most of the patients they see in palliative care was cancer patients, but they are now seeing more cardiovascular problems, respiratory cases, HIV/AIDS, and end-stage cardiac or renal disease.
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There is a combined program with Critical Care Medicine in palliative care.
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She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying.
Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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