| compassion |
a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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| compassionate use |
A phrase used to describe programs that provide experimental drugs on an individual basis to seriously ill people with few or no treatment options. Often, case-by-case approval must be obtained from the FDA.
Ãâó: www.aegis.com/pubs/cria/2003/CR030902.html
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| compassionate use |
Refers to providing a drug to a patient on humanitarian grounds before the drug has received official approval.
Ãâó: www.seniormag.com/conditions/cancer/cancerglossary...
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| compassionate use |
an FDA classification that allows the use of an experimental drug for a serious illness for which there is no other suitable treatment.
Ãâó: www.sfaf.org/treatment/beta/b29/b29glos.html
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| compassion |
[from Latin com with + pati to bear, suffer] Sympathetic understanding; the feeling of one's unity with all that is, resulting in an "intimate magnetic sympathy with all that is." (OG)
Ãâó: www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/ci-cz.htm
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