medical
Syllables: med·i·cal/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/
medical adjective: of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
Adjective
medical (not generally comparable, comparative more medical, superlative most medical)
- Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
- medical doctor; medical student
- Do you have any medical experience?
- Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
- medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
- Synonyms:
- curative, therapeutic
- Requiring medical treatment.
- A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
- Pertaining to the state of one's health.
- medical examination; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
- Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
- medical ward
- Synonyms:
- nonsurgical, nonoperative
- Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery.
- medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology
- surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
Noun
medical (plural medicals)
- A medical examination.
- You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
- 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...2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian
- A medical practitioner.
- 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...1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68
medical meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
medical in Urdu
- of the practice of medicine
- طِبّی tibbī
medical in Bengali
- মিডিকাল, চিকিত্সাবিদ্যাবিষয়ক, ঔষর্ধসম্পর্কিত
medical in Malayalam
- medical
- വൈദ്യ vaidya
medical in Kannada
- medical, medicinal
- ವೈದ್ಯ vaidya
More languagesFewer languages
- medical in Punjabi
- طبی t̤ibbī
- medical in Sanskrit
- वैद्य vaidya
- medical in Sinhala
- වෛද්ය waidya
- medical in Nepali
- डाक्टरी ḍākṭarī
- medical in Arabic
- طِبِّيّ ṭibbiyy
- medical in Indonesian
- medis
- medical in Persian
- طبی tebbi
Examples of medical in a sentence
- 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.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:
Synonyms of medical
Antonyms
Forms of medical
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more medical |
| superlative | most medical |
| Noun | |
| plural | medicals |
Origin of medical
Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
Words formed from medical
- aeromedical
- anatomicomedical
- antimedical
- biomedical
- chief medical advisor
- chief medical officer
- chronomedical
- durable medical equipment
- electromedical
- emergency medical service
- emergency medical technician
- ethnomedical
- extramedical
- geomedical
- iatromedical
- med-evac
- Medicaid
- medical alert jewelry
- medical cannabis
- medical center
- medical certificate
- medical condition
- medical desert
- medical doctor
- medicalese
- medical ethics
- medical examiner
- medical finger
- medical glove
- medical Greek
- medical history
- medical informatics
- medicalisation
- medicalise
- medical isotope
- medicalization
- medicalize
- medical journal
- medical jurisprudence
- medically
- medical marijuana
- medical out
- medical practitioner
- medical record
- medical report
- medical school
- medical student
- medical students' disease
- medical tape
- medical tourism
- Medicare
- medicide
- medikit
- medispa
- medscanner
- nanomedical
- neuromedical
- nonmedical
- non-medical
- paramedical
Phrases with medical
Questions about medical
- What does medical mean?
- Medical means of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
- What is medical in Urdu?
- Medical in Urdu is طِبّی (tibbī). See Medical meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use medical in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is medical?
- Medical can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce medical?
- Medical is pronounced /ˈmɛdɪkl̩/.
Words near medical in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: medical (page history and authors); medical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വൈദ്യ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ವೈದ್ಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); طبی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); वैद्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); වෛද්ය (Sinhala) (page history and authors); डाक्टरी (Nepali) (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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