Usually means: Prepare patient for medical evaluation.
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  1. work-up, work up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. work up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. work up: Vocabulary.com
  4. work-up: Wordnik
  5. work up: Wiktionary
  6. work-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. work-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. work-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. work-up, work up: Dictionary.com
  10. Work-up, Work-up (chemistry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. work up: Rhymezone
  12. work up: Free Dictionary
  13. work up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. work up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. work-up, work up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. work up: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (work up)

verb:  To raise; to excite; to stir up.
verb:  To develop.
verb:  (transitive, medicine) To give (a patient) a general medical examination to assess health and fitness.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To use up (material, etc.).
verb:  (obsolete, nautical) To set at an irksome or needless task.

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