Meanings of ameliorative in English

Of course I do, he said, but nothing I've tried has been ameliorative.

But then I had enjoyed ameliorative language and the protection of business-class excuses.

NSO exerts ameliorative and therapeutic effects on the STZ-induced diabetic male Wistar rats.

However, at both lower and higher doses, BH4 had less or no ameliorative effects.

Liver histology suggests some mild ameliorative properties of both zinc deficiency and zinc supplementation.

The ameliorative measures already mentioned have by no means prevented the boycott and the strike.

I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.

Thus, the data suggest an emerging model of stress responses in which ABA has several ameliorative functions.

In the meanwhile, a little ameliorative labor legislation was being passed by state legislatures and by Congress.

Future investigations should clarify the functional significance of deficits and indicate whether patients will benefit from ameliorative interventions.

For patients who have progressed to this stage of hypertensive disease, aerobic exercise may be of ameliorative value.

Facial blushing may usually be undesirable but may have an ameliorative function for some individuals under some circumstances.

The fiscal position only confirms the need for an economic agenda tilted towards reform and away from ameliorative spending.

It is emotional, altruistic, at best ameliorative, aiming to meet the individual situation as it arises and presents itself.

Our results showed improvements in both clinical and physiological outcomes for a disease that otherwise has no standard ameliorative remedy.

He talked in a straightforward way with his villagers, reduced a number of rents and spent money freely in ameliorative work.