Medical Definition
mĕdĭ-kəl
medicals
adjective
Of or connected with medicine or the practice or study of medicine.
Webster's New World
Requiring treatment by medicine.
American Heritage Medicine
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noun
(informal) A medical examination.
You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- health check
- medical exam
- medical examination
- medical checkup
- checkup
- treatment
- therapy
- therapeutics
- simple
- pharmaceutics
- iatrology
- therapeutic
- therapeusis
- specific
- pharmaceutical
Other Word Forms of Medical
Noun
Singular:
medical
Plural:
medicalsOrigin of Medical
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Medieval Latin medicālis from Latin medicus physician from medērī to heal med- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Coined by Sir Thomas Browne, 1646, based on Latin medicus.
From Wiktionary
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