Term: palliation: easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: lancewood: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: cyperus: type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: fondler: a molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: vestibular apparatus: organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: daisy print wheel: a wheel around which is a set of print characters that make a typing impression on paper
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: barren: an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: swine influenza: an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: lighthouse keeper: the keeper of a lighthouse
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: pott's disease: TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine
Broader: easing: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Unrelated: glengarry: a Scottish cap with straight sides and a crease along the top from front to back; worn by Highlanders as part of military dress