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# Medical Terms from Your Discharge Document Explained

> AfterCare finds every medical term in your discharge document and explains it in plain language, with a reference back to the passage where it appeared.

The Medical Terms screen gives you plain-language explanations for every medical term AfterCare found in your discharge document. These explanations are generated specifically from your paperwork — they are not pulled from a generic medical dictionary. Each term is tied to the exact passage where it appeared so you always know what was said and where.

## How terms are found and explained

When AfterCare processes your document, one of its pipeline stages identifies medical terminology — drug names, anatomical terms, procedure names, clinical abbreviations, and diagnostic labels — and generates a plain-language explanation for each one in context. The explanation reflects how the term was used in your document, not a generic definition.

For example, if your discharge summary mentions *"DVT prophylaxis"*, AfterCare explains it as something like *"steps to prevent dangerous blood clots forming in your legs while you recover"* — drawing on the context of your actual paperwork rather than a textbook entry.

## Reading a term card

Each card on the Medical Terms screen shows:

* **The term** — as it appeared in your document, preserving the original spelling and capitalisation.
* **Plain-language explanation** — a sentence or two written in everyday language.
* **Source excerpt** — the sentence or phrase from your document that contained the term, shown in italics below the explanation (when available).

## Low-confidence explanations

<Note>
  If AfterCare is uncertain about how a term was used — for example, because the
  surrounding text was ambiguous or the scan quality was poor — it flags the
  explanation as low confidence. When you see this flag, AfterCare recommends
  checking the original line of your document and confirming the meaning with
  your care team before acting on it.
</Note>

A low-confidence flag means AfterCare is being transparent about the limits of what it could extract, not that the explanation is necessarily wrong. Treat flagged terms as a prompt to verify, not as an error.

## What to do if a term is missing

AfterCare extracts terms automatically during document processing. If a term from your paperwork doesn't appear on this screen, it means AfterCare either did not identify it as a medical term or could not generate a sufficiently grounded explanation for it.

In either case:

* Search the [Ask screen](/features/ask) to see if AfterCare recorded relevant information about it elsewhere.
* Look up the term with your pharmacist, care team, or a trusted patient resource.

<Info>
  AfterCare does not add terms from outside your document. If a term is not
  listed here, it was not found in your paperwork during processing. This is
  intentional — the screen reflects your document, not a medical encyclopaedia.
</Info>


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