urgent care
noun
1
: medical care provided for illnesses or injuries which require prompt attention but are typically not of such seriousness as to require the services of an emergency room
… they have turned to one of the fastest-growing segments of American health care: urgent care, a common category of walk-in clinics with uncommon interest from Wall Street.—
Julie Creswell
—often used before another nounJulie CreswellIf your leg or arm is sore and swollen, go to an urgent care center; if you have chest pain, shortness of breath or you're coughing up blood, get to an emergency room.—Rick Nathanson
Rick NathansonThe athlete sustains an inversion or eversion ankle injury and is evaluated at a local emergency room or urgent care facility.—James S. Keene
James S. Keene2
: medical care of an urgent nature
Strokes now are the focus of a broad new public-awareness campaign labeling them as "brain attacks," needing the same urgent care as heart attacks.—Marilyn Chase
Marilyn ChaseExamples of urgent care in a Sentence
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At Baptist Health urgent care centers, doctors are seeing more influenza compared to COVID, although Pourmasiha says patients for the past few weeks have had milder flu symptoms.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
If continuing up Sanitas that day was my first mistake, identifying my second is pretty easy: riding a bike to the urgent care a half mile away.
—Dennis Lewon, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2025
During a series of doctor’s office, urgent care, and ER visits, x-rays and CT scans of her lungs showed nothing.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Historically, field service businesses have functioned more like urgent care centers, relying on reactive maintenance when problems arise.
—Anand Subbaraj, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
If continuing up Sanitas that day was my first mistake, identifying my second is pretty easy: riding a bike to the urgent care a half mile away.
—Dennis Lewon, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2025
During a series of doctor’s office, urgent care, and ER visits, x-rays and CT scans of her lungs showed nothing.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Historically, field service businesses have functioned more like urgent care centers, relying on reactive maintenance when problems arise.
—Anand Subbaraj, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Urgent care.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urgent%20care. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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