PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

  

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PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

Specialty Definition: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

DomainDefinition

Medicine

A treatment given to relieve symptoms caused by fatal disease. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

Specialty definitions using "PALLIATIVE TREATMENT": Megestrol. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Palliative treatment is appropriate for patients with symptomatic disease. (references)

For women with advanced-stage disease, critical issues include optimal radiotherapy techniques, whether chemotherapy or combined modality regimens improve outcome, the morbidity and benefit of salvage therapy for recurrent disease, and palliative treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

palliative treatment

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT

Language Translations for "PALLIATIVE TREATMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

palliativum (palliative, palliative therapy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

palliatief (palliative), verzachtend (palliative, palliative therapy), verlichtend (palliative, palliative therapy). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palliatiivi (palliative, palliative therapy), oireita lievittävä lääke (palliative, palliative therapy). (various references)

   

French

  

palliatif (palliation, palliative, palliatives). (various references)

   

German

  

Palliativa (palliative, palliative therapy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατευναστικός (palliative, palliative therapy), παρηγορητικός (palliative, palliative therapy), ανακουφιστικός (soothing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

palliativo (palliative). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alliativepay eatmenttray

   

Spanish

  

paliativo (alleviative, palliative), tratamiento paliativo (palliative, palliative therapy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Bibliography


  

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