PALLIATIVE
\pˈali͡ətˌɪv], \pˈaliətˌɪv], \p_ˈa_l_iə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of PALLIATIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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Tending to excuse or cover over; as, palliative circumstances; serving to relieve or remedy without curing.
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That which serves to excuse guilt or to lessen disease or pain.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A remedy or mode of treatment, which only relieves a disease, without curing it. The palliative treatment-Cura palliati'va, is placed in antithesis to the radical, Cura radica'lis; see Radical.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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