Meaning

4 senses
  1. A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.

    compounds beginning with Folge, in legal administration Wiedervorlage

  2. (Internet)A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.

  3. A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.

    добиваниеdobivanije

  4. The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.

    Folgeuntersuchung, Nachuntersuchung

    последующее наблюдениеposledujuščeje nabljudenije, последующее врачебное наблюдениеposledujuščeje vračebnoje nabljudenije

More definitions
  • a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
  • an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
  • a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
sports: shot on goal directly following another:
(medicine) revisiting:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
subsidiary action:
(medicine) revisiting:

Origin

Deverbal from follow up.

Deverbal from follow up.

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Forms

plural: follow-ups

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment:followupreexaminationreview
  • an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done:followup
  • a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work:followup

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfollow up

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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