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MEDICAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person
Synonyms:
checkup; health check; medical; medical checkup; medical exam; medical examination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("medical" is a kind of...):
examination; scrutiny (the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes))
Meronyms (parts of "medical"):
ballistocardiogram (a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph)
cardiogram; ECG; EKG; electrocardiogram (a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph)
Derivation:
medical (relating to the study or practice of medicine)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery
Example:
pneumonia is a medical disease
Classified under:
Antonym:
surgical (relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine)
Derivation:
medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
Synonyms:
aesculapian; medical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Derivation:
medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to the study or practice of medicine
Example:
medical school
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Derivation:
medical (a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person)
medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Context examples:
The CBD amounts administered were within what is considered a therapeutic range for several medical conditions in humans.
(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)
An unexpected medical problem that happens during treatment with a drug or other therapy.
(Adverse effect, NCI Dictionary)
The act of the dispensing, applying, or tendering a medical product or other agent.
(Agent Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
Occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians, and are qualified by special training and, frequently, by licensure to work in supporting roles in the health care field.
(Allied Health Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)
Some people should not drink at all, including alcoholics, children, pregnant women, people on certain medicines and people with some medical conditions.
(Alcohol, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
Any medical substance or procedure not generally accepted by orthodox western medicine or an unorthodox application of an otherwise accepted substance or procedure.
(Alternative Medicine, Direct, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication or description of an adverse event associated with a critical medical event.
(Adverse Event Associated with Serious Medical Event, NCI Thesaurus)
A characteristic used to qualify the determination of whether an adverse event is related to medical product or procedure.
(Adverse Event Attribution Category, NCI Thesaurus)
Medical substance or procedure in the process of becoming accepted by orthodox western medicine.
(Alternative Medicine, Indirect, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication or description that an event or occurrence in an individual's medical history is being managed.
(Medical History Controlled, NCI Thesaurus)
