Definition of medical aid Medical aid
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What does medical aid mean?
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| medical aid - professional treatment for illness or injury | ||
| medical care | ||
| treatment, intervention care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | ||
| medical diagnosis identification of a disease from its symptoms | ||
| 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.); "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief" | ||
| 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 protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" | ||
| holistic medicine medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors; "holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body" | ||
| hospice a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | ||
| injection, shot the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure | ||
| 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 | ||
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