Biomedical Meaning

/ˌbaɪəʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/
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adjOf or pertaining to biomedicine.

nounA product of the biomedicine industry.

I'm going to give a paper at this year's conference on biomedical ethics.
I'm making a poster for my biomedical science class.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ research team developed a new device to monitor heart patients.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ engineers are working on building a new type of heart valve.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- Latin medicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin medicālisbor. French médicalbor. English medical English biomedical From bio- + medical.

"The research problem was biomedical in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with biomedical, psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our biomedical colleagues felt that [...]" — 2006, Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice, page 253:
"Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature." — 2007, Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US, page 28:
"Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services." — 2011, Gosia M. Brykczyńska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People, page 208:
"Even outside openSNP, the largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma." — 2025 March 31, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, “Sunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospective”, in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ research team developed a new device to monitor heart patients.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ engineers are working on building a new type of heart valve.

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