palliation
IPA: pˈæɫiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.
- Extenuation; mitigation.
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Examples of "palliation" in Sentences
- Palliation of incurable illness doesn't count.
- The goal of their treatment was cure or palliation.
- These include premium cover which extends to palliation.
- It has shown benefit in palliation of esophageal malignancies.
- Radiotherapy has a role in the palliation of metastatic melanoma.
- Your conduct in the present case is without mitigation or palliation.
- We use these for palliation of esophageal, biliary and colonic tumours.
- No hand wringing, little wrangling -- just a realization that suffering requires palliation regardless of where in the world it is happening.
- It is true that he afterwards composed an elaborate apology for his people in the form of a history in twenty volumes, which may be considered as a kind of palliation for the evil he had done them in action.
- This study shows that physicians who behave as though more is better and aggressive treatment is preferable to palliation and watchful waiting may impose needless suffering on black patients in their final days.
- "If you have a terminal diagnosis, you are a hospice candidate, you have an incurable disease that required palliation, meaning the relieving of symptoms, I think we need as many tools in that scenario as we can have," Dr. Miller added.
- "I am glad to hear you say so," said Cap. "Miss Black, please hear this in palliation – I would not presume to say in defense – of my conduct: I was driven to frenzy by a passion of contending love and jealousy as violent and maddening as it was unreal and transient.
- In light of these events, lest we feel too guilty for plunging our readers down the slippery slope of disillusionment into a gaping abyss of continual despair from our ideologically harrowing subject matter, we would like to offer for your personal palliation the following token of our support.