definitive treatment

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definitive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈfɪn.ɪ.tɪv/us
/dɪˈfɪn.ə.t̬ɪv/
not able to be changed ...
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treatment
noun
uk
/ˈtriːt.mənt/us
/ˈtriːt.mənt/
the way you deal with or behave towards someone ...
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As adefinitivetreatmentfor cancer, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be combined.
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Unsurprisingly therefore, reduction in the white cell count can improve quality of life and prevent complications, and is usually used while the options for moredefinitivetreatmentare being discussed.
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Beautifully written and deeply researched in both national and local archives, this monograph comes as close to being adefinitivetreatmentof its subject as might be envisaged.
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Thedefinitivetreatmentwas surgery.
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He is giving not first-aid but last aid,definitivetreatment—full treatment—for minor injuries and ailments.
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From 2002 data has been collected on the further milestone of a maximum two months from urgent general practitioner referral with suspected breast cancer to firstdefinitivetreatment.
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They found that although it achieved more rapid times for seeing patients it had no effect at all on the interval between referral and receivingdefinitivetreatment.
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Definitivetreatmentis usually recompression in a recompression chamber with hyperbaric oxygen treatment.
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Removal of the gallbladder with surgery, known as a cholecystectomy, is thedefinitivetreatmentfor biliary colic.
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Thedefinitivetreatmentfor duodenal atresia is surgery (duodenoduodenostomy), which may be performed openly or laparoscopically.
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Thedefinitivetreatmentfor an aortic aneurysm may be surgical or endovascular repair.
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Definitivetreatmentis achieved only by surgical removal.
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However, the onlydefinitivetreatmentis surgery to correct the defect by perforating the atresia to create a nasopharyngeal airway.
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Definitivetreatment, however, (especially with increased corneal edema) is surgical in the form of corneal transplantation.
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Small pseudoaneurysms can spontaneously clot, while others needdefinitivetreatment.
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Ideal propeller dynamics was given adefinitivetreatmentin several reports and a book.
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Blood transfusions coupled with surgical repair are thedefinitivetreatmentfor hypovolemia caused by trauma.
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It is considered thedefinitivetreatmentfor achalasia.
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There is nodefinitivetreatmentavailable or needed for breath-holding spells, as the child will eventually outgrow them.
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