MEDICAL AID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical aid mean? 

• MEDICAL AID (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL AID has 1 sense:

1. professional treatment for illness or injury

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL AID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL AID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Professional treatment for illness or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

medical aid; medical care

Hypernyms ("medical aid" is a kind of...):

intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))

Meronyms (parts of "medical aid"):

medical diagnosis (identification of a disease from its symptoms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical aid"):

injection; shot (the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe)

intensive care (close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions)

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)

allopathy (the 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)

digitalisation; digitalization (the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders)

disinfection (treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms)

detoxification (treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver))

defibrillation (treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator))

bloodletting (formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine))

primary care (the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere))

hospice (a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill)

holistic medicine (medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors)

bandaging; binding; dressing (the act of applying a bandage)

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)

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

hospital care; hospitalisation; hospitalization (placing in medical care in a hospital)

aftercare (care and treatment of a convalescent patient)

 Context examples 

An outbreak of the disease upon his plantation, which was distant from medical aid, caused him to study it himself, with some rather far-reaching consequences.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he reached my sister’s side she was unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for she slowly sank and died without having recovered her consciousness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)