Usually means: Reliefs or treatments for symptoms.
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  1. palliatives: Merriam-Webster
  2. palliatives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. palliatives: Vocabulary.com
  4. palliatives: Wordnik
  5. palliatives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. palliatives: Wiktionary
  7. palliatives: Dictionary.com
  8. palliatives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. palliatives: Legal dictionary

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  1. palliatives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. palliatives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. palliatives: Medical dictionary

(Note: See palliative as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (palliative)

adjective:  Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
▸ Also see palliative


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