MEDICAL INSTITUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical institution mean? 

• MEDICAL INSTITUTION (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL INSTITUTION has 1 sense:

1. an institution created for the practice of medicine

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL INSTITUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL INSTITUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An institution created for the practice of medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("medical institution" is a kind of...):

establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical institution"):

clinic (a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists)

extended care facility (a medical institution that provides prolonged care (as in cases of prolonged illness or rehabilitation from acute illness))

hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)

 Context examples 

A clinical trial that is carried out at more than one medical institution.

(Multi-Institutional Clinical Trial, NCI Dictionary)

Tthe proportion of all the observations that have been classified correctly by the diagnostic procedures in given population, or using some diagnostic test, or by some medical institution or professional.

(Diagnostic Accuracy, NCI Thesaurus)