medical support
Help from doctors
Medical support refers to healthcare services, personnel, or resources that assist in treating illness or injury.
In military and emergency contexts, it encompasses everything from first aid to evacuation and hospital care: The troops lacked adequate medical support.
More broadly, it can mean any assistance related to health needs: Her family provided medical support during her recovery.
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired
- caregiverOne providing daily assistance
- physical therapyRehabilitative movement-based medical care
- anesthesiologistDoctor administering surgical sedation
hospital bed · nurse · bedside manner · cast · paramedic · mask · midwife · counselor · bandage · surgeon · ventilator · vital signs · blood pressure · stretcher · triage nurse · therapist · oxygen · prosthetic limb
- combat supportcovering fire, suppressive fire, suppressing fire, medevac, resupply
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- support lawalimony, child maintenance, arrears, arrearage, back payments
- amphibious warfareamphibious assault, beach landing, amphibious warfare, landing craft, amphibious vehicle
- mission planningobjectives, timeline, briefing, debriefing, reconnaissance
medical supporthome remedies
Informal household cures
folk medicine · self-treatment · traditional remedies · faith healing · quackery