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MEDICAL CENTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of a city where medical facilities are centered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("medical center" is a kind of...):
center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)
Holonyms ("medical center" is a part of...):
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Context examples:
The patient will be admitted into a medical center and receive a type of hospital bed that will be paid for my Medicare.
(Hospital with Medicare Approved Swing Bed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A medical center with a swing type of hospital bed that will be paid for my Medicare.
(Hospital with Medicare Approved Swing Bed, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
To help fill the research gap, scientists conducted the Age of Blood in Children in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (ABC-PICU) randomized trial at 50 medical centers between February 2014 and November 2018.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
A group of of six collaborating laboratories at medical centers located throughout the U.S. working to identify new molecular alterations that may be useful for brain tumor diagnosis.
(Glioma Marker Network, NCI Thesaurus)
The patient will be admitted into a medical center which is eligible to receive funding from Medicaid but not Medicare.
(Nursing Facility Certified Under Medicaid but Not Certified Under Medicare, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The patient died while in a medical center such as a hospital, skilled nursing facility (SNF), intermediate care facility (ICF), or a freestanding hospice center.
(Died in a Medical Facility, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
The ACOSOG (Durham, NC) includes general and specialty surgeons, representatives of related oncologic disciplines and allied health professionals in academic medical centers and community practices throughout the US and foreign countries.
(American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A cooperative group funded primarily by the NCI, one of the largest clinical cancer research organizations in the US, incorporating universities, medical centers, Community Clinical Oncology Programs, and Cooperative Group Outreach Programs with almost 6000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, statisticians, and clinical research associates from the US, Canada, and South Africa.
(Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A national clinical research group - network of 29 university medical centers, over 185 community hospitals and more than almost 3000 physicians - sponsored by the NCI, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago, and its Statistical Center located at Duke University, founded in 1955 with a goal of bringing together clinical and laboratory research.
(Cancer and Leukemia Group B, NCI Thesaurus)
The finding — a collaboration between UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and two other medical centers — gives scientists a new target besides the brain to develop therapies for people with excessive sleepiness.
(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
