medical aid
English Thesaurus
1. professional treatment for illness or injury (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | intervention, treatment, |
| definition | : | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | primary care, |
| definition | : | the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | aftercare, |
| definition | : | care and treatment of a convalescent patient (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | therapy, |
| definition | : | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | nursing care, |
| definition | : | care by a skilled nurse (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | irrigation, |
| definition | : | (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | holistic medicine, |
| definition | : | medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | hospice, |
| definition | : | a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | injection, shot, |
| definition | : | the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | bloodletting, |
| definition | : | formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | defibrillation, |
| definition | : | treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | detoxification, |
| definition | : | treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver) (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | disinfection, |
| definition | : | treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | anticoagulation, |
| definition | : | the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | allopathy, |
| definition | : | the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | homeopathy, homoeopathy, |
| definition | : | a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | intensive care, |
| definition | : | close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions (noun.act) |
| part holonym | : | medical diagnosis, |
| definition | : | identification of a disease from its symptoms (noun.act) |
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