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tertiary care

tertiary care noun: health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.

Noun

tertiary care (uncountable)

  1. Health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.
    • Milwaukee Children's Hospital would be incorporated in a 75-bed unit at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, dealing with so-called tertiary care patients, those requiring the most advanced level of medicine.1981 Jan. 23, Neil D. Rosenberg, Health board holds on hospital plans", Milwaukee Journal, p. 1 (retrieved 21 June 2012)
    • This 150-bed hospital would become the only hospital in the New York City area specializing entirely in providing tertiary care—the highest level of care—for seriously ill children.1996 April 28, Tom Callahan, “Hospital Plans Unit for Children”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2012

Questions about tertiary care

What does tertiary care mean?
Tertiary care means health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.
What part of speech is tertiary care?
Tertiary care is a noun.

Words near tertiary care in the dictionary

  1. tertiary amines
  2. tertiary amyl
  3. tertiary butyl
  4. tertiary butylhydroquinone
  5. tertiary butylhydroquinones
  6. tertiary care
  7. tertiary college
  8. tertiary colleges
  9. tertiary color
  10. tertiary colors
  11. tertiary colour

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