MEDICAL PROCEDURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical procedure mean? 

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

1. a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL PROCEDURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)

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

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

dental procedure (a procedure employed by a dentist)

 Context examples 

The date (and time) the patient gives consent to a surgical or medical procedure or participation in a clinical study after achieving an understanding of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.

(Informed Consent Date, NCI Thesaurus)

Consent by a patient to a surgical or medical procedure or participation in a clinical study after achieving an understanding of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.

(Informed consent, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical procedure that invades (enters) the body, usually by cutting or puncturing the skin or by inserting instruments into the body.

(Invasive procedure, NCI Dictionary)

A medical procedure that involves testing a sample of blood, urine, or other substance from the body.

(Laboratory Procedure, NCI Dictionary)

Any medical procedure used to sustain the life of a patient in critical condition.

(Life Support, NCI Thesaurus)

A surgical or medical procedure that terminates a pregnancy by removing the fetus.

(Induced Abortion Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

Refers to a medical procedure in which an organ, cells, or tissue are taken from a living body for a treatment or procedure, and then returned to the living body.

(Ex vivo, NCI Dictionary)

A process in which patients are given important information, including possible risks and benefits, about a medical procedure or treatment, a clinical trial, or genetic testing.

(Consent process, NCI Dictionary)

You also may need surgery or some other medical procedure.

(Diabetic Heart Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The most common cause of esophageal perforation is injury during a medical procedure such as esophagoscopy or placement of a naso-gastric tube; and pathologic process such as neoplasm or gastric reflux with ulceration.

(Esophageal Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)