controlled
v.v. to have power over something or to decide how it works. In medicine, it means keeping a disease or a symptom from getting worse.
v. to exercise authoritative direction or influence over a process, person, or entity. In a clinical context, it refers to the successful management of a condition or symptom to prevent its progression.
The doctor controlled the patient's pain with new medicine.
The medical team worked quickly to ensure the infection was controlled before it could spread to other organs.
While the primary symptoms were easily controlled through diet and exercise, the secondary complications required a more aggressive pharmacological intervention to maintain the patient's long-term stability.
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object. In medical research, it also refers to the act of accounting for variables in an experiment.
The medicine controlled to the fever.The medicine controlled the fever.The verb is transitive and should not be followed by the preposition 'to'.