# medical
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: med‧i‧cal

### Adjective

medical (not generally comparable, comparative more medical, superlative most medical)
* Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
    medical doctor; medical student
    Do you have any medical experience?
** 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
* 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.
    Synonyms: nonsurgical, nonoperative
    Antonyms: surgical, operative
    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

#### Synonyms

* (medicinal): curative, therapeutic

#### Derived terms

* aeromedical
* anatomicomedical
* antimedical
* biomedical
* chronomedical
* durable medical equipment
* electromedical
* emergency medical service
* emergency medical technician
* ethnomedical
* extramedical
* geomedical
* iatromedical
* med-evac
* Medicaid
* medical alert jewelry
* medical cannabis
* medical center
* medical certificate
* medical condition
* medical desert
* medical doctor
* medicalese
* medical ethics
* medical examiner
* medical finger
* medical glove
* medical Greek
* medical history
* medical informatics
* medicalisation
* medicalise
* medical isotope
* medicalization
* medicalize
* medical journal
* medical jurisprudence
* medically
* medical marijuana
* medical out
* medical practitioner
* medical record
* medical report
* medical school
* medical student
* medical students' disease
* medical tourism
* Medicare
* medicide
* medispa
* medscanner
* nanomedical
* neuromedical
* nonmedical
* non-medical
* paramedical
* photomedical
* physicomedical
* physiomedical
* phytomedical
* premedical
* pseudomedical
* psychomedical
* quasimedical
* sociobiomedical
* sociomedical
* sportsmedical
* telemedical
* transmedicalism
* transmedicalist
* unmedical
* zoomedical

#### Related terms

* medicational

#### Translations
### Noun

medical (plural medicals)
* (informal) A medical examination.
    You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
** 2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian: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.
** 2021 November 17, “Network News: Age-related medical requirements”, in RAIL, number 944, page 9:All UK train drivers must undergo a medical every three years up to the age of 54, and annually from then on.
* (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.
** 1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68: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.

#### Related terms

* medicate
* medicine

### Anagrams

* camelid, claimed, decimal, declaim, maliced

## Interlingua
### Adjective

medical (not comparable)
* medical (pertaining to medicine, health care, etc.)

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Latin medicālis, from medius (“middle”).

### Adjective

medical m
* Of or relating to the middle finger.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French médical.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

medical m or n (feminine singular medicală, masculine plural medicali, feminine and neuter plural medicale)
* medical