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PREMEDICAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preceding and preparing for the study of medicine

Example:

premedical courses

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

preceding (existing or coming before)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Preparing for the study of medicine

Example:

premedical students

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)

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