Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a palliative manner; so as to palliate.
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- adverb With
palliative care .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mortality for those over 85 years was 100\%, and notably 73\% of those patients were managed 'palliatively' only
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Mortality for those over 85 years was 100\%, and notably 73\% of those patients were managed 'palliatively' only
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Mortality for those over 85 years was 100\%, and notably 73\% of those patients were managed 'palliatively' only
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What they feel is a sense of underlying unease which the consumer state (palliatively) remedies with meds and media distractions.
Prisoners of Envy: Wal*Mart Nihilism Versus the Punk Rock of Blogging 2006
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Hypnotic suggestion, which induces sleep, stills pain, silences fear, abolishes functional disturbances, works chiefly palliatively.
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These costs were due mainly to the two new clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer patients ineligible for curative treatment who are being treated palliatively (NSCLC) and patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer, as well as the ongoing pediatric glioma trial.
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These costs were due mainly to the two new clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer patients ineligible for curative treatment who are being treated palliatively (NSCLC) and patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer, as well as the ongoing pediatric glioma trial.
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