Sekirov Dictionary

medical

/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/

adjective 6
noun 2
forms 3
phrases 1

adjective6

•
connected with doctors and their work of treating people who are sick or hurt
- Do you have any medical experience?
Pertaining to the state of one's health.
•
Requiring medical treatment.
- A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
•
Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery.
- surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails

noun2

•
(informal) A medical examination.
- You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
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(no longer used) A medical practitioner.
- We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him. — 1884

forms

medicals · more medical · most medical

Phrases with medical

medical out
To discharge (especially from a police force or military) for medical reasons; to discharge (a person) because they are not fit for duty. (Chiefly used in the past tense.)

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