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MEDICAL PROCEDURE
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I. (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:
A document with important information about a medical procedure or treatment, a clinical trial, or genetic testing.
(Consent form, NCI Dictionary)
A way of contracting a disease by interacting with an individual that has been exposed to the disease while undergoing a medical procedure.
(Contact With Exposure During Medical Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)
A process in which a person is given important facts about a medical procedure or treatment, a clinical trial, or genetic testing before deciding whether or not to participate.
(Informed consent, NCI Dictionary)
The three main categories of CJD are: • Sporadic CJD, which occurs for no known reason • Hereditary CJD, which runs in families • Acquired CJD, which occurs from contact with infected tissue, usually during a medical procedure
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
It may have brought an unexpected expense that knocked you sideways or a medical procedure or operation you didn’t anticipate, as the eighth house rules surgery and methods doctors use to treat you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You see them all the time in the news - the number of people who were in the hospital last year, the percentage of kids who are overweight, the rate at which people are catching the flu, the average cost of a medical procedure.
(Health Statistics, NIH)
