medical care vs primary care

primary care vs medical care

medical care and primary care both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medical care	Yes	No	No	No
primary care	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, primary care is a hyponym of medical care; that is, primary care is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than medical care:

medical care: professional treatment for illness or injury
primary care: the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)

Other hyponyms of medical care include aftercare, hospital care, hospitalisation, hospitalization, therapy, treatment, nursing care, irrigation, bandaging, binding, dressing, holistic medicine, hospice, injection, shot, bloodletting, defibrillation, detoxification, disinfection, digitalisation, digitalization, anticoagulation, allopathy, homeopathy, homoeopathy, intensive care.

medical care (noun)	primary care (noun)
professional treatment for illness or injury	the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)

Difference between medical care and primary care

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