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SUPPORTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnishing support or assistance
Example:
his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer
Classified under:
Similar:
accessory; adjunct; adjuvant; ancillary; appurtenant; auxiliary (furnishing added support)
accessary; accessory (aiding and abetting in a crime)
certificatory (serving to certify or endorse authoritatively)
collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying (serving to support or corroborate)
demonstrative of (serving to prove or demonstrate)
encouraging; supporting (furnishing support and encouragement)
Also:
positive (characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.)
Antonym:
unsupportive (not furnishing support or assistance)
Derivation:
support (argue or speak in defense of)
support (be behind; approve of)
support (give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to)
Context examples:
The nerve tissue composed of nerve cell bodies, unmyelinated nerve fibers and supportive tissue found in the brain and spinal cord.
(Gray Matter, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called palliative care, supportive care, and symptom management.
(Comfort care, NCI Dictionary)
There are no approved drugs for the disease, but prompt diagnosis and aggressive supportive care can improve survival.
(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)
Researchers now hope to understand how the supportive epicardial cells help to drive heart regeneration.
(New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts, University of Cambridge)
The underlying or supportive part of an anatomic structure.
(Base, NCI Thesaurus)
Includes NCI information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care.
(CancerFax, NCI Thesaurus)
A submission that contains additional supportive material to augment information previously submitted.
(Amendment Regulatory Submission, Food and Drug Administration)
Such an agent is likely to alter the pattern of treatment of the disease and can be safely administered by properly trained physicians without specialized supportive care facilities.
(Group C/Treatment IND Protocol, NCI Thesaurus)
Supportive care that is not hospice or pain relief
(Palliative Care, Other Than Pain and Hospice, NCI Thesaurus)
To Janzen, the find is supportive of his field discoveries, making a case for the blending of field and lab investigations.
(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)
