"medical desert" meaning in All languages combined

See medical desert on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: medical deserts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} medical desert (plural medical deserts)
  1. (chiefly US, geography) A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare. Wikipedia link: medical desert Tags: US Categories (topical): Geography, Healthcare
    Sense id: en-medical_desert-en-noun-b0ZBFQvi Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: geography, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for medical desert meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "medical deserts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "medical desert (plural medical deserts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geography",
          "orig": "en:Geography",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Healthcare",
          "orig": "en:Healthcare",
          "parents": [
            "Health",
            "Medicine",
            "Body",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare."
      ],
      "id": "en-medical_desert-en-noun-b0ZBFQvi",
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
        [
          "healthcare",
          "healthcare"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, geography) A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "medical desert"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "medical desert"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "medical deserts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "medical desert (plural medical deserts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Geography",
        "en:Healthcare"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
        [
          "healthcare",
          "healthcare"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, geography) A (usually rural) region whose population has inadequate access to healthcare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "medical desert"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "medical desert"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.