palliative
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- noun
- /ˈpæl.i.ə.tɪv/
- Specialized
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paliativo
- People forget that these benefits were palliatives for deeper pain.
- a temporary palliative
- only palliative
Examples
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And this was from a palliative nurse who would nurse people in their dying days.
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So the fulcrum in palliative care is suffering.
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Now the family are squaring up to palliative care and planning to make everyday count.
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Places like Australia, Singapore, you know, relatively wealthy Eastern countries, you know, have access to palliative care, but it's quite variable.
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There was no cure except for bed rest and the usual palliatives.
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And I, I went to a course given by Doctor Susan Block, who's the one of the leaders in palliative care at Harvard.
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And for seven years, I was the medical coordinator of a big palliative care in the dying, dying people at Bangkok Hospital.
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But one is the palliative care, which I'm extraordinarily fascinated by people that do that.
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One of the things we've been struggling with in our our work around closing divides is why is palliative care and pain control so completely undervalued?
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Although she was terminally ill, palliative care allowed her to spend her last days comfortably.
Synonyms
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A medicine or treatment that treats illness and reduces pain
A medicine that reduces pain without curing the illness
A medicine or treatment that reduces pain and discomfort without curing the problem
Antonyms
How Pain-Relieving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Palliative comes from the Latin word palliare ('to cloak') and pallium ('cloak'). A palliative (a remedy) is like a cloak for pain: it covers or reduces symptoms to give relief, but it does not fix the underlying cause.