0 present participle of ameliorate --
1 to make a bad or unpleasant situation better: --
These drugs produce a prompt anti-inflammatory effect, mainly ameliorating the symptoms due to heart failure.
The contribution of informal carers is recognised and some of the possible ways of ameliorating their economic position are considered.
These patients likely received better management of physical symptoms and more social contact and support, ameliorating two of the major known risk factors for depression.
Within the past few years therefore, parasitic nematodes have been used in clinical trials aimed at ameliorating inflammatory diseases.
On the other hand, by ameliorating grievances generated by cadres in the countryside, party chiefs tried to demonstrate the regime's benevolence.
Yet what happens when priority setting is more or less abandoned, and the attention focuses on ameliorating decisions of individual doctors?
These results suggest that diltiazem may have an ameliorating effect on graft vascular disease following cardiac transplantation and merits further study.
All the evidence from this study attests to the value of befriending in ameliorating the effects of social isolation.
