terminal stage
End of line
Terminal stage describes the final phase of a disease or condition, when death is expected and curative treatment is no longer possible.
Medical care shifts from fighting the illness to managing symptoms and comfort: The cancer had reached its terminal stage.
The phrase extends to any process nearing its inevitable end: The negotiations were in their terminal stage.
- end of lifeCessation of existence
- finalLast and decisive
- final daysConcluding period
- dyingCeasing to live
- last breathFinal exhale before death
hospice · comfort care · palliative · fatal · incurable · decline · prognosis · last · deathbed · metastatic · advanced · deterioration · countdown · fading · irreversible · no turning back · departure · twilight
- medical stagesacute phase, recovery phase, maintenance phase, prodromal, onset
terminal stageearly stage
Initial developmental period
early detection · onset · stage one · first stage · remission
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