MEDICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medically mean? 

• MEDICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MEDICALLY has 1 sense:

1. involving medical practice

  Familiarity information: MEDICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving medical practice

Context example:

medically correct treatment

Pertainym:

medical (relating to the study or practice of medicine)

 Context examples 

A medically supervised program to improve the health and well-being of people who have heart problems.

(Cardiac Rehabilitation, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

It contains no medically significant pathogens.

(Jamesdicksonia, NCI Thesaurus)

Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke.

(Nicotine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any state accompanied by evidence of HIV in the body (positive test for HIV genome, cDNA, proteins, antigens, or antibodies); may be medically asymptomatic or symptomatic; prefer AIDS when appropriate.

(HIV Infection, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) is a medically supervised program to help people who have: • A heart attack • Angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting for coronary heart disease • A heart valve repair or replacement • A heart transplant or a lung transplant • Angina • Heart failure

(Cardiac Rehabilitation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

This applies only if the difference in the rate at which the active ingredient or moiety becomes available at the site of drug action is intentional and is reflected in the proposed labeling, is not essential to the attainment of effective body drug concentrations on chronic use, and is considered medically insignificant for the drug (21CFR320.1).

(Bioequivalence, NCI Thesaurus)

Community Health Centers (CHCs) are private, non-profit organizations that directly or indirectly (through contracts and cooperative agreements) provide primary health services and related services to residents of a defined geographic area that is medically undeserved.

(Community Health Center, NCI Thesaurus)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

However, in the study, Senji Laxme from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and colleagues show that the antivenom used in India works only against the ‘big four’ — the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), spectacled cobra (Naja naja), saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) and Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) — but not against several other medically important species.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)