SUPPLEMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does supplemental mean? 

• SUPPLEMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective SUPPLEMENTAL has 2 senses:

1. functioning in a supporting capacity

2. added to complete or make up a deficiency

  Familiarity information: SUPPLEMENTAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPLEMENTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Functioning in a supporting capacity

Synonyms:

auxiliary; subsidiary; supplemental; supplementary

Context example:

the main library and its auxiliary branches

Similar:

secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)

Derivation:

supplement (a supplementary component that improves capability)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Added to complete or make up a deficiency

Synonyms:

supplemental; supplementary

Context example:

produced supplementary volumes

Similar:

additive (characterized or produced by addition)

Derivation:

supplement (a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency))

 Context examples 

They found that 90 percent of the infants on diuretics needed supplemental oxygen, compared to 59 percent of infants who did not receive the therapy.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

A dataset used to capture the findings about an event or intervention that cannot be represented within an event or intervention record or as a supplemental qualifier.

(Findings About Events or Interventions Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Federal, state, or local programs that provide supplemental food assistance, e.g., Farmer's Market Coupon Program, Commodity Foods Program, Health Start; Women, Infant, & Children (WIC) Program.

(Food Assistance Programs, NCI Thesaurus)

They are intended to provide supplemental, unstructured information to the user or additional insight about the concept.

(DesignNote, NCI Thesaurus)

An appendage to an existing document that contains supplemental information.

(Addendum, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists now are planning a study to assess the effect of supplemental glutamine and leucine, another amino acid that activates mTORC1, in people with atopic dermatitis with and without CARD11 mutations.

(Scientists identify single-gene mutations that lead to atopic dermatitis, National Institutes of Health)

Also called supplemental oxygen therapy.

(Oxygen Therapy, NCI Dictionary)

But excess calcium from food was not associated with a similar uptick in mortality risk, which suggests that the body may not be able to clear excess supplemental calcium as well as it can natural calcium.

(Healthy Diet Can't Be Replaced by Vitamins, Supplements, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)