palliative

paliativo

Que busca aliviar el sufrimiento y controlar una enfermedad grave, más que curarla.

En inglés sencillo: Aimed at easing suffering and controlling serious illness rather than curing it.

• Her father receives palliative care at home.
• The team discussed palliative treatment with the family.
• Palliative therapy helped him stay comfortable as the disease progressed.

Antónimos: curative

Expresiones frecuentes: palliative care, palliative treatment, palliative therapy

paliativo

Que reduce el dolor u otros efectos de una enfermedad.

En inglés sencillo: Making pain or other effects of an illness less severe.

• The medicine has a palliative effect.
• She received palliative treatment for the pain.
• These palliative measures made his breathing easier.

Sinónimos: soothing, relieving

Expresiones frecuentes: palliative treatment, palliative effect, palliative medicine

paliativo

Medicamento o tratamiento que alivia los efectos de una enfermedad sin curarla.

En inglés sencillo: A medicine or treatment that eases the effects of an illness without curing it.

• The drug serves as a palliative.
• Doctors offered a palliative for her persistent pain.
• These treatments are palliatives rather than cures.

Sinónimos: remedy, pain reliever

Expresiones frecuentes: a useful palliative, an effective palliative, a temporary palliative, a mild palliative