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med

/mɛːd/

med is the clipping of medical.

med is the clipping of median.

med is the clipping of medicine.

med is the clipping of medicate.

med is the pronunciation spelling of might.

Noun (1)

med (countable and uncountable, plural meds)

  1. (in plural, informal) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
    • He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
    • Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
      Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
      Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
  2. (countable, informal) A medic; a doctor.
    • A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41

Meaning of medical

Adjective

medical (not generally comparable, comparative more medical, superlative most medical)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
    • medical doctor; medical student
  2. (not comparable, usually) Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
    • medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
  3. (not comparable, usually) Requiring medical treatment.
    • A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
  4. (not comparable, usually) Pertaining to the state of one's health.
    • medical examination; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
  5. (not comparable, usually) Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
    • medical ward
    Antonyms:
    surgical, operative
  6. (not comparable, usually) Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery.
    • medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology

See all 8 meanings of medical

Meaning of median

Adjective

median (not comparable)

  1. Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
  2. In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
    • Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]1957, Sidney Frederic Harmer, The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition, page 1106
  3. Having the median as its value.

See all 11 meanings of median

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Med

IPA/mɛd/

Med

  1. (abbreviation, clipping, informal, with-definite-article) Clipping of Mediterranean.
    • We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.
    • They used to go wild for villas by the Med and ski chalets in the Alps; now they are forking out for views of the Channel and hilly walks in Shropshire.2023 July 22, Donna Ferguson, “Post-Brexit fall in English ownership of European second homes, figures show”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun (2) capitalized: Med

IPA/mɛd/

Med

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of medical.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of medicine.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: MED

MED or the MED

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Middle English Dictionary.
    • As frequent users of the MED well know, of course, the MED history of ‘misledinge’ only appears inverted if we look at dates of composition, since it is in fact manuscript date that dictates the order of quotation under any of the semantic subdivisions in any MED entry.2001, Christopher Cannon, “The Unchangeable Word: The Dating of Manuscripts and the History of English”, in A. J. Minnis, editor, Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of...
    • Make a list of the lexical (that is open-class words) in the passage, and use the OED and/or MED online to find other citations elsewhere in ME texts.2002, Simon Horobin, Jeremy Smith, An Introduction to Middle English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85

Noun (3) capitalized: MEd

MEd (plural MEds)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Master of Education.

Forms of med

Noun
pluralmeds
pluralMEds
Verb
third-person singular presentmeds
present participlemedding
past participlemedded
pastmedded

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Questions about med

What does med mean?
Med means medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
What is med the clipping of?
Med is the clipping of medical.
What part of speech is med?
Med can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce med?
Med is pronounced /mɛːd/.
What is the plural of med?
The plural of med is meds.

Words near med in the dictionary

  1. Mecum
  2. Mecums
  3. mecysmaucheniid
  4. mecysmaucheniids
  5. mecysteine
  6. med
  7. med kit
  8. med mal
  9. med pour
  10. med school
  11. med schools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: med (page history and authors); Med (page history and authors); MED (page history and authors); MEd (page history and authors); medical (page history and authors); median (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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