adj :  done, conducted, or administered in the course of following up persons esp. after institutionalization < care for discharged hospital patients> 
, n :  maintenance of contact with or reexamination of a person (as a patient) at usu. prescribed intervals following diagnosis or treatment : also  :  a patient with whom such contact is maintained .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  flap  follow up 
 
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