MEDICAL CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical care mean? 

• MEDICAL CARE (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL CARE has 1 sense:

1. professional treatment for illness or injury

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Professional treatment for illness or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

medical aid; medical care

Hypernyms ("medical care" is a kind of...):

intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))

Meronyms (parts of "medical care"):

medical diagnosis (identification of a disease from its symptoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical care"):

injection; shot (the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe)

intensive care (close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions)

homeopathy; homoeopathy (a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated)

allopathy (the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself)

anticoagulation (the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood)

digitalisation; digitalization (the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders)

disinfection (treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms)

detoxification (treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver))

defibrillation (treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator))

bloodletting (formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine))

primary care (the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere))

hospice (a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill)

holistic medicine (medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors)

bandaging; binding; dressing (the act of applying a bandage)

irrigation ((medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution)

nursing care (care by a skilled nurse)

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

hospital care; hospitalisation; hospitalization (placing in medical care in a hospital)

aftercare (care and treatment of a convalescent patient)

 Context examples 

You buy a plan or policy, and the company agrees to pay part of your expenses when you need medical care.

(Health Insurance, NIH)

Careful monitoring, treatment, and regular medical care can prevent or help manage some of these risks.

(Heart Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

But if immediate medical care isn't available, here are steps to take: Get into a warm room as soon as possible. Put the affected area in warm - not hot - water.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

People with mild cases of the flu should stay home and avoid contact with others, except to get medical care.

(Flu, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

They answer emergency calls and give basic medical care.

(Emergency Medical Services, NIH)

You should seek medical care quickly if you have: • A sudden fever • A severe headache • A stiff neck

(Meningitis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

The Clinical Center as a whole promotes translational research, that is, the transformation of scientific laboratory research into applications that benefit patient health and medical care.

(NIH Clinical Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A person trained and qualified to provide comprehensive diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic medical care and services to patients under the guidance of the physician.

(Physician assistant, NCI Thesaurus)

The infection will clear in most cases without medical care, but bacterial pinkeye needs treatment with antibiotic eye drops or ointment.

(Pinkeye, NIH: National Eye Institute)

The application of genomic and molecular data to tailor medical care to individuals.

(Personalized medicine, NCI Thesaurus)