| palliate | 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. "Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat." (Sir T. Herbert) 2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. "They never hide or palliate their vices." (Swift) 3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease." "To palliate dullness, and give time a shove." (Cowper) Synonym: To cover, cloak, hide, extenuate, conceal. To Palliate, Extenuate, Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. "To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part." Origin: Palliated; Palliating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| palliation | 1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. 2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. 3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. Origin: Cf. F. Palliation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| palliative | 1. Affording relief, but not cure. 2. An alleviating medicine. Origin: L. Palliatus = cloaked (18 Nov 1997) |
| palliative care | Treatment aimed at relieving symptoms and pain rather than effecting a cure. (13 Nov 1997) |
| palliative care physician | <specialist> A medically qualified specialist in the care of people with incurable disease where the focus is on symptom control and the enhancement of quality of life. (13 Nov 1997) |
| palliative therapy | <procedure> A procedure such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy or surgery that is performed to relieve or ease pain or other symptoms. (16 Dec 1997) |
| palliative treatment | <oncology> Treatment to relieve symptoms of the disease but not to cure it. Frequently takes the form of making the patient more comfortable through pain management. (16 Dec 1997) |
| pallidal | Relating to the pallidum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidal syndrome | <syndrome> An intention tremor beginning in one extremity, gradually increasing in intensity, and subsequently involving other parts of the body. Synonym: progressive cerebellar tremor. Facial paralysis, otalgia, and herpes zoster resulting from viral infection of the seventh cranial nerve and geniculate ganglion, a form of juvenile paralysis agitans associated with primary atrophy of the pallidal system. Synonym: paleostriatal syndrome, pallidal syndrome. Synonym: Ramsay Hunt's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidectomy | Excision or destruction of the globus pallidus, usually by stereotaxy; a prefix may indicate the method used, e.g., chemopallidectomy (destruction by a chemical agent), cryopallidectomy (destruction by cold). Origin: pallidum + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidoamygdalotomy | Production of lesions in the globus pallidus and amygdaloid nuclei. Origin: pallidum + amygdala + G. Tome, a cutting (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidoansotomy | Production of lesions in the globus pallidus and ansa lenticularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidotomy | A destructive operation on the globus pallidus, done to relieve involuntary movements or muscular rigidity. Origin: pallidum + G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallidum | Synonym: globus pallidus. Origin: L. Pallidus, pale (05 Mar 2000) |
| palliobranchiata | <zoology> Same as Brachiopoda. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |