Usually means: Prepare patient for medical evaluation.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. work up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. work-up, work up: Merriam-Webster
  3. work up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. work up: Vocabulary.com
  5. work-up: Wordnik
  6. work up: Wiktionary
  7. work-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. work-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. work-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. work-up, work up: Dictionary.com
  11. Work-up, Work-up (chemistry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. work up: Rhymezone
  13. work up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. work up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. work up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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 (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. work up: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. 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.

Similar:
get up, build up, progress, build, amp up, rouse, uprouse, fire up, sublevate, rub up, more...

Opposite:
calm down, relax, unwind, de-escalate

Types:
sweat, exercise, run, jog, lift weights, more...

Phrases:
work up to, to work up, something you might work up, work my way up, work together to come up with, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, overtopping, upright, overthwart, well up, jack, ower, up, elate, out, supine

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Similar:
get up, build up, progress, build, amp up, rouse, uprouse, fire up, sublevate, rub up, more...

Opposite:
calm down, relax, unwind, de-escalate

Types:
sweat, exercise, run, jog, lift weights, more...

Phrases:
work up to, to work up, something you might work up, work my way up, work together to come up with, work your way up, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, overtopping, upright, overthwart, well up, jack, ower, up, elate, out, supine



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