Saturday, November 29, 2014

palliative

palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most palliative)

  1. (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

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synanthrope

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