palliative surgery

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• palliative — I. adjective Date: 15th century serving to palliate < palliative surgery > < palliative care > • palliatively adverb II. noun Date: 1724 something that palliates …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• palliative — Reducing the severity of; denoting the alleviation of symptoms without curing the underlying disease. * * * pal·lia·tive pal ē .āt iv, pal yət adj serving to palliate <palliative surgery> pal·lia·tive·ly adv palliative n something that… …   Medical dictionary

• palliative — noun (C) formal 1 an action taken to make a bad situation seem better, but which does not solve the problem: Promises of reform are mere palliatives. 2 a medical treatment that will not cure a problem but will reduce the pain palliative adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Palliative care — (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is a specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients. Unlike hospice care, palliative medicine is appropriate for patients in all disease stages, including those… …   Wikipedia

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• Palliative care — 1) Medical or comfort care that reduces the severity of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. For incurable diseases, in cases where the cure is not recommended due to other health concerns, and when the patient does not… …   Medical dictionary

• Palliative treatment — To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely. Palliation cloaks a disease. Also sometimes called symptomatic treatment. To take a case, a 91 year old man was found to have a tumor in his lung …   Medical dictionary

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