Is Palliation a Word?

The noun palliation is used by doctors, nurses, or hospice workers who try to make their patients more comfortable, often because their illnesses are incurable. ... The Latin root word is palliat, or "cloaked," and palliation does in a sense cloak or mask a person's pain.

What does the word palliation mean?

1 : to reduce the violence of (a disease) also : to ease (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease drugs to palliate the pain. 2 : to cover by excuses and apologies tried to palliate his blunder.

How do you use palliation in a sentence?

Palliation sentence example
  1. This proved a palliation of his difficulty, but not a solution. ...
  2. Although PDT is licensed in several countries for palliation of malignant dysphagia, it yet has to prove itself against laser. ...
  3. This is similar to response rates for other radiopharmaceuticals used for cancer pain palliation .
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