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MEDICAL RELATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does medical relation mean?
• MEDICAL RELATION (noun)
The noun MEDICAL RELATION has 1 sense:
1. the professional relation between a health care professional and a patient
Familiarity information: MEDICAL RELATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The professional relation between a health care professional and a patient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("medical relation" is a kind of...):
professional relation (the relation that exists when one person requests and is granted professional help from a qualified source)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical relation"):
doctor-patient relation (the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient)
nurse-patient relation (the responsibility of a nurse to act in the best interests of the patient)
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