medical
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
medical/ˈmedɪkl/
▶adjective relating to the science or practice of medicine. ▶noun an examination to assess a person's state of physical health or fitness.
– derivatives
medically adverb.
medically adverb.
– origin C17: via Fr. from med. L. medicalis, from L. medicus ‘physician’.
'medical' also found in these Oxford entries:
alternative medicine
- anaesthetist
- anonymize
- antenatal
- armamentarium
- artificial insemination
- atraumatic
- balsam
- barefoot doctor
- bioethics
- biomarker
- biomaterial
- bleed
- BMA
- case
- case history
- catalepsy
- cataplexy
- cataract
- -cephalic
- check-up
- chemist
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- circumcise
- clear
- clinic
- clinical death
- collapse
- co-morbid
- complaint
- complementary medicine
- condition
- conservative
- convalesce
- convalescent
- cream
- crisis
- cure
- dean
- diagnose
- diathermy
- diathesis
- diet
- dwarfism
- dys-
- eczema
- elective
- erythro-
- exam
- faith healing
