(v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.
(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
(v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.
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.
(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.
Palliation
Definition:
(n.) The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
(n.) Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
(n.) That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
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.
(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.