medical
The insurance will pay for any treatment that is considered medically necessary.
Medically trained staff were present at the scene of the accident.
She is being treated medically for the disease.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: general words
ACLS
advance directive
allopathic
AMA
aspirate
biosurgery
first-aider
intubate
irradiation
light therapy
living will
medicalization
orthodox medicine
perorally
pharmacotherapy
phlebotomy
phototherapy
polypharmacy
quackery
telemedicine

medically | Business English

medically
adverb
uk /ˈmedɪkli/us
in a way that is related to people's health or to the treatment of illness or injury:
Drug companies claimed that the allegations were not medically accurate.
a medically qualified/trained person

Examples of medically

medically
The aim of this study was to investigate outcome in frequent attenders in secondary care who present repeatedly with medically unexplained symptoms.
The majority of respondents worked in public health departments and were medically trained.
Current definitions of medically unexplained symptoms are best seen in the context of systems of medical care.
Her research explores a range of topics, including justice in healthcare, healthcare for aging individuals and populations, and the use of medically futile treatment.
First, hopelessness in medically ill patients has been found to have a direct impact on health status.
It is also potentially applicable to evaluating other health technologies with socially, medically, and economically challenging features.
This obsessive desire to have appendages surgically removed to fit an alternative body image is, to say the least, medically and ethically controversial.
Medically assisted reproductive technology: variables, verities, and rules of thumb.
Typically, such people are monitored medically on a long-term basis, and may be receiving long-term treatment as well.
Is it ethical for parents to volunteer their babies for an experimental treatment that is not medically indicated for these specific babies?
Medically, their absence of inner heat, susceptible temperaments, pale countenances and enervated sensibilities bore out their emptiness of being.
It is generally regarded as a benign disorder and is treated medically.
This is a book that is to be recommended to any physician or mental health professional working with patients with medically unexplained syndromes.
It involves psychiatrists' intervention in the care of medically ill patients who present with psychiatric symptoms whilst in a general hospital setting.
Specific skills in psychiatry of old age are therefore very useful when assessing medically ill elderly patients in the general hospital setting.
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