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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palliative \Pal"li*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. palliatif.] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French palliatif (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin palliativus "under cloak, covert," from Late Latin palliatus (see palliate ). As a noun, recorded from 1724.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. 2 (context medicine English) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Promises of reform are mere palliatives. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I am not referring to adhoc arrangements or short-term palliatives. ▪ It was the primary purpose of reorganisation to recast local government in a way which ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative , alleviatory , lenitive , mitigative , mitigatory ] n. remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn: alleviant , alleviator ]

Usage examples of palliative.

And why would he be up on Palliative Care giving out morphine in the first place?

Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.

For the disease of sectarianism, tolerance is a valuable palliative, but it is not a radical cure.

This will always retain its place in operative surgery as a palliative and life-saving operation for carcinomatous stenosis of the lower part of the colon, and in cases of carcinoma of the rectum in which operation is not feasible.

By what we term palliative treatment alone more cures are effected than by the old process of treatment with nitric acid.

The splenectomy had been palliative surgery for myelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer.

At its height friendship becomes love, and the palliative one is forced to apply to soothe it for a moment only increases its intensity.

Florence Nightingale taught so well, will work backwards through anodynes, palliatives, curatives, preventives, until with little show of science it imparts most of what is most valuable in those branches of the healing art it professes to teach.

There were efficient palliatives to apply to her occasional rashes, and effective ways of ensuring that she received adequate nutrition in spite of her perennial tendency to gastric distress and diarrhea.

Or these women who are hammering at the gates on which is written "No admittance for the mothers of mankind," will by and by organize an institution, which starting from that skilful kind of nursing which Florence Nightingale taught so well, will work backwards through anodynes, palliatives, curatives, preventives, until with little show of science it imparts most of what is most valuable in those branches of the healing art it professes to teach.

The volatile oil, mixed with spirits of wine forms the liqueur Anisette, which has a beneficial action on the bronchial tubes, and for bronchitis and spasmodic asthma, Anisette, if administered in hot water, is an immediate palliative.

All this work on chemotherapeutic agents like Canceran is only for palliative purposes.

Concluding that a palliative was in order, Paul called room service and asked to have a shaker of extra-dry martinis sent up.

We are all suffering with Our Lord this day, and may suffer more, but I do not think He would frown upon our use of a stiff dose of medicinal palliative.

The delay proved unbearable for Mrs Whitmark, whose roaring anxiety at the chance of more rain-stained Chippendales was no match for her customary palliative dosages of sedatives, muscle relaxants, sleep aids and mood elevators.