English > medical care: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | professional treatment for illness or injury. |
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| Synonym | medical aid |
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| Parts | medical diagnosis | Identification of a disease from its symptoms |
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| Narrower | aftercare | care and treatment of a convalescent patient |
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| allopathy | The usual / 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 |
| 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) |
| digitalization, digitalisation | The administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders |
| disinfection | treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms |
| dressing, bandaging, binding | 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 |
| homeopathy, homoeopathy | A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large / large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated |
| hospice | A program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill |
| hospitalization, hospitalisation, hospital care | placing in medical care in a hospital |
| injection, shot | The act of putting a liquid / liquid into the body by means of a syringe |
| intensive care | Close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions |
| 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 |
| primary care | The medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) |
| therapy | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) |
| Broader | treatment, intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) |
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| Spanish | asistencia médica, atención médica |
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| Catalan | assistència mèdica, atenció mèdica |
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