Medical
['medɪk(ə)l] or ['mɛdɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery; 'medical treatment'; 'pneumonia is a medical disease' .
(adj.) relating to the study or practice of medicine; 'the medical profession'; 'a medical student'; 'medical school' .
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Definition
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.
(a.) Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Of medicine, of the healing art.[2]. Medicinal, healing, curative.
Typed by Leigh
Definition
adj. relating to the art of healing diseases: containing that which heals: intended to promote the study of medicine.—adv. Med′ically.—Medical jurisprudence (see Jurisprudence).
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Examples
- St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is the testimony of the medical certificate to prove the death, and to show that it took place under natural circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But the late discoveries of medical science have given us large power of alleviation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had evidently suspected me of a medical design on his young lady! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The medical evidence showed conclusively that death was due to apoplexy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I fear, I know, that the couch needs spiritual as well as medical consolation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The most conspicuous element in this is the wide-spread acceptance of the X-ray as a necessary tool of the medical profession. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion, he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A medical man would have come in handy now. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is in that way that hard-working medical men may come to be almost as mischievous as quacks, said Lydgate, rather thoughtlessly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If it was closer to the front I could take you to a first medical post. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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