palliative

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
 * 2)  Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

Derived terms

 * palliative care

Translations

 * Arabic: مُلَطِّف, مُخَفِّف,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 緩和的, 姑息的
 * Czech:, zmírňující, útěšný, úlevný
 * Finnish:, oireita lievittävä
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
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 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 一時的に緩和する
 * Kazakh: паллиативтік
 * Polish:
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 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: паліати́вний

Noun

 * 1)  Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
 * The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.