Definition of Medical

1. Noun. A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person.


2. Adjective. Relating to the study or practice of medicine. "Medical school"
Partainyms: Medicine
Derivative terms: Medicine

3. Adjective. Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery. "Pneumonia is a medical disease"
Derivative terms: Medicine
Antonyms: Surgical

4. Adjective. Of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art.
Exact synonyms: Aesculapian
Partainyms: Aesculapius
Derivative terms: Aesculapius, Medicine

Definition of Medical

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

Definition of Medical

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. ¹

2. Noun. (context: informal US) A medical examination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Medical

1. a physical examination [n -S]

Medical Definition of Medical

1. Pertaining to medicine or to the treatment of diseases, pertaining to medicine as opposed to surgery. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medical

mediatorial
mediators
mediatorship
mediatorships
mediatory
mediatour
mediatrices
mediatrix
mediatrixes
mediazation
medicable
medicaid
medicaid funds
medicaids
medical (current term)
medical aid
medical alert jewelry
medical anatomy
medical audit
medical bill
medical biophysics
medical building
medical care
medical center
medical checkup
medical chemistry
medical community

Literary usage of Medical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Bellman 22:689-91 Je 23 '17 Medals eee aleo European war—Memorials and monuments medical botany. See Botany, medical medical colleges Sec also medical ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Why do not medical journals take advantage of the same techniques? ... Editors of medical literature desire to be scholarly; they would like to exemplify ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
""WE congratulate the Army medical Staff and the profession on the тегу successful issue of their controversy with the Government. ..."

4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"He Is also an honorary member of the following societies: 1879, medical Society of the County of New York; 1880, medical Society of the State of New York; ..."

5. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"We welcome it cordially; it is an admirable work, and indispensable to all literary medical men. The labor which has been bestowed upon it is something ..."

6. Bulletin by Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women (1905)
"DRAPER AS medical EXAMINER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY. ... From 1885-96 he was medical Inspector and filled various other positions in connection with the Board of ..."

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