Usually means: Legal instructions for future healthcare.
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  1. advance directive: Merriam-Webster
  2. advance directive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advance directive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. advance directive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. advance directive: Wiktionary
  6. advance directive: Dictionary.com
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  9. advance directive: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. advance directive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Advance Directive: Investopedia
  5. Advance Directive: Financial dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. advance directive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Advance directive: Merck Manuals
  4. advance directive: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. advance directive: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (medical law) A legal document outlining a person's end-of-life medical and healthcare wishes.

Similar:
DPOA, ADRT, death certificate, DPOAHC, airworthiness directive, maid, directive, death panel, doc., amdt, more...

Opposite:
retrodirective

Types:
living will, health care proxy, more...

Phrases:
advance health care directive, advance directive types, Advance healthcare directive, more...

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Similar:
DPOA, ADRT, death certificate, DPOAHC, airworthiness directive, maid, directive, death panel, doc., amdt, more...

Opposite:
retrodirective

Types:
living will, health care proxy, more...

Phrases:
advance health care directive, advance directive types, Advance healthcare directive, more...



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