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Palliative vs Supportive - What's the difference?

palliative | supportive |

As adjectives the difference between palliative and supportive

is that palliative is serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate while supportive is providing support.

As a noun palliative

is (medicine) something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

palliative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine)

    Coordinate terms

    * (medicine) analgesic, lenitive

    Related terms

    * palliate * palliation

    See also

    * (Palliative care)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
    • The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives .

    External links

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    supportive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Providing support.
    • I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

    Antonyms

    * unsupportive