medical

English

Etymology

Coined by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646, based on Latin medicus.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

medical (comparative more medical, superlative most medical)

1. Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
   • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, 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.

   Do you have any medical experience?

Translations

of the practice of medicine

• Catalan: mèdic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醫 (zh), 医 (zh) (yī), 藥 (zh), 药 (zh) (yào)

• Czech: lékařský (cs)
• Finnish: lääketieteellinen (fi)
• French: médical (fr)
• German: medizinisch (de)
• Hebrew: רְפוּאִי (r'fu'í)

• Italian: medico (it)
• Latvian: medicīnisks
• Polish: medyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: médico (pt)
• Russian: медицинский (ru) (medicínskij), врачебный (ru) (vračébnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: lèigh
• Slovene: medicínski
• Spanish: médico (es) m, médica (es) f

Derived terms

• medical doctor
• medical examination
• medical exemption
• medical history
• medical record
• medical student
• medical treatment

Noun

medical (plural medicals)

1. (informal) A medical examination.

   You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.

Related terms

• medicate
• medicine

Anagrams

• camelid
• claimed
• decimal
• declaim