palliative
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
palliative
- Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
- (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
- French: palliatif
- German: palliativ, beschönigend, lindernd
- Italian: palliativo
- Portuguese: paliativo, paliativa
- Russian: паллиати́вный
- Spanish: paliativo
palliative (plural palliatives)
- (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
- The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
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