medical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: more medical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most medical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: medicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: medical doctor; medical student
Do you have any medical experience?
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.
gloss: Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
gloss: Requiring medical treatment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
gloss: Pertaining to the state of one's health.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: medical examination; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
gloss: Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: medical ward
gloss: Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology
surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
gloss: A medical examination.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.
All UK train drivers must undergo a medical every three years up to the age of 54, and annually from then on.
gloss: A medical practitioner.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
Related words: medicational
medicate
medicine
Derived words: aeromedical
anatomicomedical
antimedical
biomedical
chief medical advisor
chief medical officer
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 tape
medical tourism
Medicare
medicide
medikit
medispa
medscanner
nanomedical
neuromedical
nonmedical
non-medical
paramedical
photomedical
physicomedical
physiomedical
phytomedical
premedical
pseudomedical
psychomedical
quasimedical
sociobiomedical
sociomedical
sportsmedical
telemedical
transmedicalism
transmedicalist
unmedical
zoomedical
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