medical
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
medical (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
- medical doctor; medical student
- Do you have any medical experience?
- Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
- medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
- Requiring medical treatment.
- A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
- Pertaining to the state of one's health.
- medical examinaton; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
- Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
- medical ward
Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery. - medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology
- surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
- French: médical
- German: medizinisch, ärztlich
- Italian: medico
- Portuguese: médico
- Russian: медици́нский
- Spanish: médico
medical (plural medicals)
- (informal) A medical examination.
- You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
- (archaic) A medical practitioner.
- 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher:
- We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
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