GC: n

S: SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/medical-care-service (last access: 3 July 2024); NCBI – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53339/ (last access: 3 July 2024).

N: 1. – medical (adj): “pertaining or relating to the art or profession of healing or those who practice it,” 1640s, from French médical, from Late Latin medicalis “of a physician,” from Latin medicus “physician, surgeon, medical man” (n.); “healing, medicinal” (adj.), from medeor “to cure, heal,” originally “know the best course for,” from an early specialization of PIE root *med- “take appropriate measures” (source also of Avestan vi-mad- “physician”). “The meaning of medeor is based on a semantic shift from ‘measure’ to ‘distribute a cure, heal'” [de Vaan]. The earlier adjective in English in this sense was medicinal. Related: Medically.

– care (n): Old English caru, cearu “sorrow, anxiety, grief,” also “burdens of mind; serious mental attention,” in late Old English also “concern, anxiety caused by apprehension of evil or the weight of many burdens,” from Proto-Germanic *karō “lament; grief, care” (source also of Old Saxon kara “sorrow;” Old High German chara “wail, lament;” Gothic kara “sorrow, trouble, care;” German Karfreitag “Good Friday;” see care (v.)).

The meaning “charge, oversight, attention or heed with a view to safety or protection” is attested from c. 1400; this is the sense in care of in addressing (1840). The meaning “object or matter of concern” is from 1580s. To take care of “take in hand, do” is from 1580s; take care “be careful” also is from 1580s.

2. General Medicine: “medical care” or “medical attention”.

• The medical and surgical treatment including necessary drugs and dressings, diagnostic and investigational procedures, hospitalization, preventive medicine procedures, transportation as a patient, and the supply and maintenance of prosthetic appliances, and includes professional care, in-patient care and out-patient care.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=medical+care (last access:3 July 2024). 2. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=medical+care&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access:3 July 2024)

SYN: 1. medical attention. 2. medical attendance. (depending on context)

S: 1. DAFSM p. 110; TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=medical+care&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 3 July 2024). 2. DAFSM p. 110.

CR: health care, health insurance.