Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a medical manner; for medical purposes; with reference to medicine or medical science.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb For medical purposes.
  • adverb In a medical manner or context.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb involving medical practice

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Examples

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  • I've got what they call medically, according to the docs, aTraumatic Brain Injury.

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  • I've got what they call medically, according to the docs, a Traumatic Brain Injury.

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  • And in the process of trying to get a cast that reflected the demographic of stroke, rather than a politically correct cast I had what I called the medically correct cast.

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2005 2005

  • We dispatched pilots last Friday trying to get 80 what we call medically-challenged people out of Baton Rouge at the request of the River Center shelter, and ran into a situation where we arrived and there were no patients.

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  • The violence level, medically, is far less than even an appendectomy.

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  • But how bad it makes us feel (that formula is harmful in medically objective ways) is not the fault of the people who write about it.

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  • The violence level, medically, is far less than even an appendectomy.

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  • So the question also is that is Macain medically certified to go throught the rigours of the presidential office given his medical records, I think clearance has to be sought from medical experts especially for them to comfirm that his battle with the cancer has been won totally.

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  • Late term medically is a little fuzzier ... but 24 weeks is the end of the second term ... so they basically are the same definition.

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