medical

CEFRA2

/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/

adjective

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adjective
Related to medicine, illness, or treatment.
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adjective
Extra detail
Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.

Examples

Some people were badly injured and needed medical care.
Those selected will have to face extensive medical and psychological tests.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

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adjective

Extra meanings

Requiring medical treatment.
Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
Pertaining to the state of one's health.

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I need medical help.
Do you have any medical experience?
medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment

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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.
2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10
After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.
2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian
All UK train drivers must undergo a medical every three years up to the age of 54, and annually from then on.
2021 November 17, “Network News: Age-related medical requirements”, in RAIL, number 944, page 9
We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher
There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.
1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68

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Origin

adjective

Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).

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adjective

She had to undergo a blank examination after the accident to check for injuries.