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palliative English

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What does palliative mean?

palliative

remedy that alleviates pain without curing (= alleviative) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

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Normal post-op course until six hours ago when he experienced lower left quadrant pain without palliative or provoking factors.
I'll send you a palliative.
GO GET LAID. WHAT KIND OF MINDLESS PALLIATIVE IS THAT FOR EXISTENTIAL ANGST?
Here in the country where the very air has a palliative effect on most ailments.
There are palliative surgeries that we can do.
Palliative treatment.
Palliative measures only.
To relocate the patient to a hospice who will manage his palliative care.
Mention palliative care, though, and I'll turn violent.
No treatment, just palliative meds at this point.
I would have you give the order, sir, to switch the care to palliative only, but you won't do that, will you, sir?
No, I think I got palliative.
A slight palliative against the chill of an orphan's despair.
Yes, I would do a palliative endoscopic stenting.
Save your palliative cliches for the next poor sap, Doctor.
Patience and calm. That is the palliative for fury and despair.
Or, if you prefer, we focus on palliative care.
Palliative.
No. Palliative treatment. Narcotics.
Why a physician with your experience would wanna work in palliative care?
I want to specialize in palliative treatment.
Palliative treatment?
He was in an induced coma for a while, then palliative care.
No. I think I've got palliative.
A slight palliative against the chill of an orphan's despair. - Write me something I can sell.
I told your Mom a lot about palliative care in the hospital.
Cold steak and kidney pie is merely a palliative, sir.
WHAT KIND OF MINDLESS PALLIATIVE IS THAT FOR EXISTENTIAL ANGST?
That is the palliative for fury and despair. Everyone is turning against me.
There are palliative surgeries we can do.
I'm very curious. Why a physician with your experience would wanna work in palliative care?
You work in palliative care, sweetheart.
It is Palliative Care.
Michael is Palliative Care.

News and current affairs

The upside of rebuilding - beyond the urgent restoration of normal life for thousands of people - is only a temporary palliative for an impaired economy.
But, unless the Arabs reconcile themselves to the permanent reality of a Jewish state in Palestine, the creation of a Palestinian Arab state will not provide more than the temporary palliative of a tenuous truce between Arabs and Jews.
Of course, in the midst of so much uncertainty, it is remarkable that the over-indebted countries' consolidation efforts remain broadly on track; but the European Central Bank's continued bond-buying and liquidity support is only a temporary palliative.
The range of expertise included general medicine, palliative care, neurology, disability studies, gerontology, psychiatry, psychology, law, philosophy, and bioethics.
But too many resources are often allocated to palliative redistributive measures that address the consequences of exclusion rather than its causes.
Given productivity constraints, redistribution is only palliative, not curative.
Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours.
Stimulus programs were sold as being a temporary palliative, needed to bridge the gap until the financial sector recovered and private lending resumed.
But if we believe that debt-driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative.
In many ways, today's Chinese consumer culture is precisely the kind of palliative that Huxley described.
Now the G-8 will discuss funding for palliative measures.
Cynical as it might seem, easy credit has been used throughout history as a palliative by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.
This means assuring compassionate nursing home care, coordinated management of chronic diseases, and competent palliative care as death approaches, rather than using ever more technology to try to eke out a little more life.
Unless the Greek economy recovers, taking on new debt is a temporary palliative that will require even more austerity down the line.

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