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PALLIATIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remedy that alleviates pain without curing
Synonyms:
alleviant; alleviator; palliative
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("palliative" is a kind of...):
curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)
Derivation:
palliative (moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Synonyms:
alleviative; alleviatory; lenitive; mitigative; mitigatory; palliative
Classified under:
Similar:
moderating (lessening in intensity or strength)
Derivation:
palliate (provide physical relief, as from pain)
palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)
Context examples:
The goal of palliative care is an achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families.
(Palliative therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
Palliative sedation may be used in patients who are near the end of life to make them more comfortable.
(Palliative sedation, NCI Dictionary)
The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients and their families.
(Hospice Care, NCI Thesaurus)
This is a general term that encompasses the medical, social, behavioral, and environmental acts that can have preventive, therapeutic, or palliative effects.
(Appropriate Treatment, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
An establishment that provides palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families via physical, psychological, social and other forms of care.
(Hospice, NCI Thesaurus)
The goal of palliative care is to prevent or treat as early as possible the symptoms of a disease, side effects caused by treatment of a disease, and psychological, social, and spiritual problems related to a disease or its treatment.
(Palliative Care, NCI Dictionary)
End-of-life planning usually includes making choices about the following: • The goals of care (for example, whether to use certain medicines during the last days of life) • Where you want to spend your final days • Which treatments for end-of-life care you wish to receive • What type of palliative care and hospice care you wish to receive
(End of Life Issues, NIH)
This doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But you may receive palliative care at any stage of an illness.
(Palliative Care, NIH: National Institute of Nursing Research)
Essential components of palliative care are: pain and symptom control, communication regarding treatment and alternatives, prognosis, and available services, rehabilitation services, care that addresses treatment and palliative concerns, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs, terminal care, support in bereavement.
(Palliative therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
