Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the study or practice of medicine.
- adj. Requiring treatment by medicine.
- n. Informal A thorough physical examination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining or relating to the profession or practice of medicine; engaged in or connected with the study or treatment of disease: as, the medical profession; a medical man, book, or college; medical services; medical science.
- Curative; medicinal; therapeutic: as, the medical properties of a plant; the medical effects of bathing. Abbreviated medicine
- n. A student or a practitioner of medicine.
- n. A small bottle or vial made from glass tubing. The vial-maker cuts the tubes into lengths suitable to make two vials, and on each end of the piece, with the aid of a blowpipe, forms a neck. He then heats the middle of the tube, parts it centrally, and closes the openings at the separated ends, shaping them properly for the bottoms.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
- n. informal A medical examination.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine
- adj. Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery
- adj. relating to the study or practice of medicine
- n. a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person
- adj. of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
Etymologies
- Coined by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646, based on Latin medicus. (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus, physician, from medērī, to heal; see med- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term "medical home" is misleading, as it refers not to a place but a practice—one in which doctors coordinate primary care for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes.”
“I personally try to force myself to use the term medical liability insurance rather than medical malpractice insurance.”
“Thirty years ago the phrase "medical marijuana" didn't exist and as I mentioned before, the thought of legalization in the U.S. was a pipe dream no pun intended.”
“: The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.”
“Prescription drug abuse, which I term medical drug addiction, like all addictions including alcoholism, (addiction to ethyl alcohol), though more widely recognized nowadays, is still not widely understood.”
“Abusive head trauma is the term medical and legal professionals have adopted, Nelson said.”
“And then, much like an RV, you would plug it into the house, through the water, the electric system, and basically you would set up housekeeping for them in this, what we call a medical environment.”
“Number two, there's issues being worked out now between the U.S. command and the U.N. on what they call medical protocols.”
“Command folks I talked to said, the U.N. is in the process of working out what they call medical protocol.”
“There is reason to be concerned," says Diane Coleman, of Not Dead Yet, a group in Rochester, N.Y., that opposes physician-assisted suicide and what it calls medical killing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘medical’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Dictionary words
Words from the names of various dictionaries.
dictionary, college, heritage, Webster's, American, rhyming, compendious, English, language, Oxford, new, Wordnik and 56 more...
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vijaimanikandan's list
Vocabulary
mass murder, superhero, bubbly, narcotics, murder, supple, neolithic, howard hughes, deus ex machina, island, mystery, suspense and 29 more...
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Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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azabanjan's Words
evapotranspiration, juggernaut, eismitte, inmates, independent, currently, locator, member, bodyguard, minute, telephone, regulations and 37 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 153
state, hang of, interpret, flase modesty, homogeneous, unqualified, capacity, clue, disassemble, invariably, cheat, cheat notes and 11 more...
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A Collectivist Utopia
Words that people like to place before community. Individualism is dead, you heard it here first!
scientific, global, academic, intelligence, law enforcement, religious, health, immigrant, social justice, medical, fashion, gay and 7 more...
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mkulob's Words
plankton, philanthropy, exhausted, irked, insane, medical, pulmonary, fistulla, hyperosmotic, mayham, electrocardiogram, coffee and 32 more...
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