palliative vs rehabilitative

palliative

adj
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. 

  • Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease. 

noun
  • Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine. 

rehabilitative

adj
  • Tending to rehabilitate. 

  • For the purpose of rehabilitation. 

How often have the words palliative and rehabilitative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )