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Definition of Palliatively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliatively
Literary usage of Palliatively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homoeopathic Practice of Medicine by Jacob Jeanes (1838)
"... by acid nit. under circumstances to excite the suspicion that, in this instance,
it only operated palliatively. In this case the affected testicle hung ..."
2. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1911)
"The liver cancer cases are all palliatively treated with the immediate morta ity
of 23.3 per cent. Of the stomach cases, 38 6 per cent. are treated ..."
3. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Arranged Systematically and Practically by Alphonse Teste (1854)
"... and palliatively. Small doses of opium probably removed the somnolence caused
by belladonna. "The surest and speediest means of homoeopathically ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These cases, treated, as they often are, comfortably and palliatively by the
applica- In civil life no more brilliant results can be shown in any of the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Here again we often see examples of cases treated palliatively for long periods
of time until the very positiveness of the diagnosis proclaims at the same ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"If treated palliatively, the time between first symptoms and exitus is ordinarily
from twelve to fifteen months. If treated radically, our real hope for a ..."
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