medical care

Noun
  1. Professional treatment for illness or injury (synset 100658847)
    is a type of: intervention, treatment - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
    subtypes:
    • primary care - the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)
    • aftercare - care and treatment of a convalescent patient
    • hospital care, hospitalisation, hospitalization - placing in medical care in a hospital
    • therapy - (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
    • nursing care - care by a skilled nurse
    • irrigation - (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
    • bandaging, binding, dressing - the act of applying a bandage
    • holistic medicine - medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors
    • hospice - a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
    • injection, shot - the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
    • bloodletting - formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)
    • defibrillation - treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)
    • detoxification - treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver)
    • disinfection - treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms
    • digitalisation, digitalization - the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders
    • anticoagulation - the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood
    • allopathy - the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself
    • 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
    • intensive care - close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions
    has: medical diagnosis - identification of a disease from its symptoms
    same as: medical aid

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