English-Spanish translations for palliative

• paliativo
  A excepción de unas vagas ayudas transitorias, a modo de cuidados paliativos. Except vague transitional aid, like palliative care.
  En esos casos, la utilización de la máquina no es el paliativo. In such cases, using machines is no palliative.
  Sin embargo, a diario oímos hablar de nuevos resultados de la investigación, tanto paliativos como quirúrgicos. Yet we hear almost daily of new research developments, both palliative and surgical.

Definition of palliative

• Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate
• Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine

Examples

• The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.

Related words

• palliation
• palliative care
• palliative medicine