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| | Care given to improve the quality of life of patients who have a serious or life-threatening disease. The goal of symptom management is to prevent or treat as early as possible the symptoms of a disease, side effects caused by treatment of a disease, and psychological, social, and spiritual problems related to a disease or its treatment. Also called comfort care, palliative care, and supportive care. |
| Previous Definitions: | SV40, sweet elm, SWS, sympathetic nervous system, symptom | | Next Definitions: | symptomatic, syncytium, syndrome, synergistic, syngeneic |
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