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palliative treatment (s) (noun), palliative treatments (pl)
Therapy that is designed to relieve or to reduce the intensity of uncomfortable symptoms of an ailment but not to produce a cure of it: Some kinds of palliative treatment include the use of narcotics to relieve pain in a patient who has advanced cancer, the creation of a colostomy to bypass an inoperable obstructing lesion of the bowel, and the debridement or the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy flesh in a patient.
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