primary care

1. 1.

   the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)

   Broadermedical care

Questions about primary care

What does primary care mean?

primary care means "the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere)".

Is primary care a common word?

primary care is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.