palliative
IPA: pˈæɫiʌtɪv
noun
- (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "palliative" in Sentences
- Palliative Care and Bereavement.
- Online palliative care formulary.
- Use of opioids in palliative care.
- That's not exclusively palliative either.
- This is referred to as palliative treatment.
- Enhancing caregiver outcomes in palliative care.
- The Fontan procedure is palliative, not curative.
- Two years ago, her doctor brought up palliative care.
- The alliteration was too punchy and powerful for personal palliatives.
- All hospice is palliative care, but not all palliative care is hospice 3.
- There is a combined program with Critical Care Medicine in palliative care.
- By what we term palliative treatment alone more cures are effected than by the old process of treatment with nitric acid.
- She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.