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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpælɪətɪv/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈpælieɪtɪv/, /ˈpæliətɪv/

形容詞

palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most palliative)

1. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
2. (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.

派生語

関連する語

• palliate
• palliation

名詞

palliative (plural palliatives)

1. (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

   The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:

     Mary heard with sorrow, and fear also, of the projected journey; but the altered expression of Isabella's countenance was a great palliative—dreadful as it was that her husband should love another...

参考

• Palliative care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “palliative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “palliative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “palliative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.