Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Medical: med schools; med students.
- n. Slang A medication or dose of medication. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An abbreviation of medicine, medical.
- n. An abbreviation of medieval;
- n. of medicinal.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Medical.
- n. informal medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a master's degree in education
Etymologies
- Shortened from medical. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The basic thing taught in med schools is how the body works, how it fails, and current methods of treatment.”
“The organizational and economic features of medicine are taught in med schools, but are not considered first-order issues. personally, given a choice, I would like my physician to understand health, disease and treatment over the intricacies of medical billing.”
“I first noticed the assortive mating effect on income 20 some years ago when I was in med school.”
Families and Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I remeber all my friends getting really excited the day we covered it in med school.”
Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing
“But 10 percent of a $3,000 med is $300 - and you'll be paying that every month.”
The Washington Post: As drug costs soar, charity offers help with covering co-pays
“If you're in med school, you would think the health care law would be a good thing for creating jobs.”
“I can tell you from my personal experience as a P attorney in med mal cases, if the tort reform measures so often bandied about were implemented, many very deserving Ps would not be compensated and some very egregious medical malpractice would go unsanctioned.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
“Apparently my doctors missed that whole section on the gallbladder in med school.”
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“And another big one, of course, is the growing number of people who have no family doctor and no hope of getting one, either, because years ago the government (composed of people who NEVER make any mistakes) decided there were too many doctors and limited enrollment in med schools across the country.”
“Insurance companies pay millions of dollars in med bills per year.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘med’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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