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What is the noun for palliating?

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palliator
  1. An apologist; one who justifies or excuses atrocities by citing extenuating circumstances or positive aspects.
  2. Someone or something that palliates; A person or thing that sooths or reduces difficulties.
  3. (medicine) A medical professional who provides palliative care.
  4. (medicine) A device that allows a patient to control the amount of pain medication that is added into an intravenous drip; infusion pump.
  5. Examples:
    1. “A more sophisticated device is the Newcastle interactive palliator, in which a continuous low-dose intravenous infusion is combined with patient-operated demand increment.”
      “The Palliator may be too complex a psychomotor task to be effectively mastered in the immediate postoperative period.”
      “Assistance with the use of the Palliator was available if the patients were unable to use it by themselves.”
palliation
  1. The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This circumstance must be regarded as some palliation for his tyranny and cruelty towards the vanquished.”
      “This study suggests that active involvement by caregivers committed to palliation can help alleviate the suffering of children dying from cancer.”
      “Antiperspirants can provide useful palliation in patients with moderate hyperhidrosis, but in severe cases they are ineffective.”
palliative
  1. (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He consented to take the nitrate regularly three times a day, and used also the white mixture as a palliative for his cough.”
      “It would have, in essence, offered a short-term palliative to a longer-term problem.”
palliations
  1. plural of palliation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His own poems are less frequently direct expressions of anger than palliations of it.”
      “Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure.”
palliatives
  1. plural of palliative
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But we need much more than news about the latest theories and scientific findings on preventive measures, palliatives and cures.”
      “Pharmaceutical companies do not like palliatives that can be grown in the back yard.”
      “I always assumed these books were filled with trite palliatives.”
palliators
  1. plural of palliator
  2. Examples:
    1. “We never have been, are not, and never will be, directly or indirectly, the apologists or palliators of duelling.”
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