palliative

IPA: pˈæɫiʌtɪv

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.

Examples of "palliative" in Sentences

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.