What's the difference between alleviant and palliative?

Alleviant


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Palliative


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  • (n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chemotherapy and SMS-analogs can provide long-term palliation.
  • (2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (3) 78% of the recurrences were seen two years postoperatively and 27% were asymptomatic; 10% underwent radical operation, 27% palliative operation and 63% conservative treatment.
  • (4) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
  • (5) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
  • (6) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • (7) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
  • (8) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
  • (9) For sequelae in the brain, nervous plexuses, heart, eye, surgical treatment can be useful, even if frequently with palliative results.
  • (10) From February 1981 to January 1985, 34 patients, with N3 metastatic nodes from primary tumours in the head and neck, were treated according to two different prospective, non-randomized protocols: 23 patients received HT combined with the first course of conventionally fractionated radical RT (40 Gy + HT--2 week interval--20-30 Gy), and 11 patients received HT combined with palliative RT (20-50 Gy + HT).
  • (11) The post-operative mortality after palliative biliary by-pass procedures was 16%, and the frequence of major post-operative complications 10%.
  • (12) Between 1981 and 1985, 20 patients with malignancy-associated ureteral obstruction (MAUO) were given external beam irradiation with a palliative intent.
  • (13) Fifty patients underwent radical radiotherapy, 30 patients underwent palliative radiotherapy and 22 patients underwent palliative intubation.
  • (14) For patients who were given LTIC adjuvant to palliative resections the 5 year survival rate was 35.6 per cent, as compared to 4.3 per cent for STC patients or 5.2 per cent for asychronous control subjects (p less than 0.01).
  • (15) These data suggest that ECMO-assisted angioplasty is a safe and effective method of palliation of unstable angina associated with cardiomyopathy.
  • (16) In a few centers, heart transplantation is being performed as an alternative to palliative surgical procedures in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  • (17) To assess the palliative care needs and the results of treatment of patients with terminal cancer admitted to a general teaching hospital.
  • (18) The surviving 14 patients all responded, 11 completely and three partially, with good palliation, for periods of from one to 28 months.
  • (19) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
  • (20) From March 1982 to December 1983, five patients with a mean age 7 years (4 months-16 years) underwent a palliative Mustard operation for complex cardiac anomalies.

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