WordNet
n. a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners
Wikipedia
A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems.
A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., with the intention or treating, curing or restoring function or structure), including the large group of surgical procedures. Rehabilitation procedures are included in this group.
Usage examples of "medical procedure".
Infusing artificial blood isn't even a difficult medical procedure.
She had suggested that there was a simple medical procedure that could prevent him fathering another child.
The moving finger had written its message on Kate Moran's mind: she could not have been saved by any medical procedure.
Routine medical procedure or not, there was an undeniable flutter of anxiety in the pit of her stomach.
She forced a deep, canning breath through her body, just as she did before a delicate medical procedure.
This morning I underwent an experimental medical procedure that successfully interrupted the symbiosis between myself and the symbiont to which I have been bonded for nearly all of my adult life.
In a kind of frigid calm more suited to defusing a bomb than to any medical procedure, Digen brought all his Tecton and Zeor discipline to bear, and fought back, bit by bit, to control of the regular field pulse.
After the first Battle of Zimia, one of Suk's predecessors had performed the medical procedure that gave Primero Harkonnen replacement lungs.
Does that mean I have the authority to force an experimental medical procedure on him?
Thanks to phar-maceuticals and advanced healing techniques, he had been able to leave the hospital soon after the medical procedure.
Thanks to Pharmaceuticals and advanced healing techniques, he had been able to leave the hospital soon after the medical procedure.