HEALTHCARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healthcare mean? 

• HEALTHCARE (noun)
  The noun HEALTHCARE has 1 sense:

1. the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession

  Familiarity information: HEALTHCARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTHCARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

health care; healthcare

Hypernyms ("healthcare" is a kind of...):

aid; attention; care; tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)

 Context examples 

If your healthcare provider thinks you have a bacterial infection, he or she may prescribe antibiotics.

(Acute Bronchitis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

If you have questions about whether it is safe for you to drink, speak with your healthcare provider.

(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

Call your healthcare provider if mild pain lasts a week or more or if you have pain with other symptoms.

(Abdominal Pain, NIH)

Healthcare workers assess the severity of lymphedema by using a tape measure or by relying on water displacement by the affected limb.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

In healthcare, a process used to learn about a patient’s condition.

(Assessment, NCI Dictionary)

Treatment that is widely accepted and used by most healthcare professionals.

(Conventional therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Healthcare services rendered within a given population or segment of a society.

(Community Practice, NCI Thesaurus)

The application of informatics methods to manage medical information and improve healthcare.

(Clinical Informatics, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology relevant to the physical location at which the medication or therapy was observed, by the healthcare provider, as being taken by the subject.

(CDISC SDTM Directly Observed Therapy Location Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

See your healthcare provider if you seem to bruise for no reason, or if the bruise appears to be infected.

(Bruises, NIH)