palliative
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French palliatif, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin *palliativus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin palliare (“to cloak”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pallium (“a cloak”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most 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.
Related terms
Translations
reducing progression and relieving symptoms
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Noun
palliative (plural palliatives)
- (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
- The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
See also
Palliative care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- “palliative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “palliative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “palliative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Adjective
palliative
German
Adjective
palliative
- inflection of palliativ:
Italian
Adjective
palliative
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