| 单词 | supportive care |
| 释义 | > as lemmassupportive care b. Medicine. Designating medical treatment that is intended to maintain basic physiological functions (esp. circulation, respiration, and nutrition) rather than to be curative, esp. in supportive care; of or relating to such treatment. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] > alleviating or superficial palliative?a1425 palliating1621 palliatea1625 palliatory1665 alleviative1770 alleviatory1830 supportive1858 subcurative1917 the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > alleviation supportation1527 lenition?1541 palliation1543 restriction1599 palliative1656 blandiment1684 supportive care1895 1858 Med. Times & Gaz. 18 Dec. 626/2 By a judicious use of counter-irritants..and a supportive and stimulating dietary and Medical treatment, the restorative powers of nature were enable to prevail. 1895 St. Louis Clinique Nov. 451/2 When once established lobar pneumonia requires but supportive care, looking after the heart, the respiration, the temperature and good nourishment. 1921 Colorado Med. Jan. 11/2 Transfusion has no effect on the course of the disease. Its only benefit is to act temporarily as a supportive measure. 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 29 350/2 His emaciation and malnourished condition did not favour rapid recovery, but with supportive care, the patient was discharged in good condition on the twenty-fifth postoperative day. 1974 L. Thomas in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 260 A new kind of much less ambitious and flamboyant therapy began to emerge, termed supportive treatment, and consisting in large part of plain common sense. 1985 Washington Post 26 Oct. a21/1 Those infants given the black spot by the medical team were provided no more than ‘supportive care’. 2004 J. M. Barry Great Influenza (2005) vi. 250 There is no way of stopping the process of disintegration in the lung once it begins. The only care is supportive, keeping the victim alive until her or she can recover. < as lemmas |
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