medical
noun
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L323757 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- relating to the practice of medicine
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin medicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin medicālisbor. French médicalbor. English medical Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
- 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 examination; 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”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin medicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin medicālisbor. French médicalbor. English medical Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
- A medical examination.
“You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.”
“After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.”
- A medical practitioner.
“We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.”
“There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.”