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upgrade

vt up·grade \ˈəp-ˌgrād, ˌəp-ˈ\
up·grad·edup·grad·ing

Medical Definition of UPGRADE

1
:  to assign a less serious status to <upgraded the patient's condition from fair to good>
2
:  to reclassify (as a cancer, concussion, or bone fracture) to a more serious grade when the grades are numbered from least to most serious

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