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palliation

NOUN
  1. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
  2. easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause

How To Use palliation In A Sentence

  • In this letter the Baron stated _fairly and moderately but without palliation_ in what light M. Bresson's conduct must necessarily appear _in London_, and what very naturally and most probably _must be the political consequences of such conduct_. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
  • The chapter on palliative therapy is of utmost importance as large number of patients are suitable only for palliation due to their advanced untreatable disease in our country.
  • The aggressive end stage management of these patients sharply contrasted with the palliation of terminal cancer patients.
  • Call this palliation, or what you will; but if you see not the difference, you are blind; and a very unfit judge for yourself, much more unfit to be a censurer of me. Pamela
  • She should neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.
  • But Roger felt far otherwise; and this sudden qualm of conscience once quelled (I will say there seemed much of palliation in the matter), a kind of inebriate feeling of delight filled his mind, and Steady Acton plodded on to the meadow yonder, half a mile a-head, in a species of delirious complacency. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • The goal of conventional treatment is palliation.
  • Antiperspirants can provide useful palliation in patients with moderate hyperhidrosis, but in severe cases they are ineffective.
  • Slide 35: Clinical Indications Pain Palliation • Hauswirth et al. (1998): prospectively 17 breast cancer patients receiving 35 mCi Re-186 - a response rate of 60\% and a mean duration of response of 5 weeks. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • This study suggests that active involvement by caregivers committed to palliation can help alleviate the suffering of children dying from cancer.
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