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urgent care

noun

  1. medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems:

    access to urgent care.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of urgent care1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

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Doctors told her family that if her mother had not taken her to urgent care that morning, she would not have survived.

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Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the California Botanic Garden, said she’s had staffers who have had to head to urgent care after a day’s work to get treated for poodle-dog exposure “because it was so bad.”

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Urgent care facilities were an early medtail use, followed by veterinarians and then dentists, Scardina said.

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After several visits to her GP and dentist she was referred to her local hospital for an ultrasound and she was red-flagged as needing urgent care.

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From the trenches of the emergency department or urgent care, the waters will be muddied.

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