tertiary care

Noun

 * 1)  Health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.
 * 2) * 1981 Jan. 23, Neil D. Rosenberg, Health board holds on hospital plans", Milwaukee Journal, p. 1 (retrieved 21 June 2012) :
 * Milwaukee Children's Hospital would be incorporated in a 75-bed unit at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, dealing with so-called tertiary care patients, those requiring the most advanced level of medicine.

Usage notes

 * Often used attributively, as a modifier of another medically-related term.

Translations

 * Finnish: tertiaarinen hoito