Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus.

• IPA: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/

medical (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

   medical doctor; medical student

   Do you have any medical experience?

2. Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.

   medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment

3. Requiring medical treatment.

   A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.

4. Pertaining to the state of one's health.

   medical examinaton; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis

5. Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.

   medical ward

6. 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

• curative, therapeutic

• medicational

• French: médical
• German: medizinisch, ärztlich
• Italian: medico
• Portuguese: médico
• Russian: медици́нский
• Spanish: médico

medical (plural medicals)

1. (informal) A medical examination.

   You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.

2. (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.

• medicate
• medicine