medical

Plural: medicals

Noun

• A thorough physical examination to assess one's health.
• a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person
• A medical examination.
• A medical practitioner.

Adjective

• relating to the study or practice of medicine
  • "the medical profession"
  • "a medical student"
  • "medical school"
• requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery
  • "medical treatment"
  • "pneumonia is a medical disease"
• of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art

Adj

• Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
• Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
• Requiring medical treatment.
• Pertaining to the state of one's health.
• 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.

Examples

• A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
• After his last disastrous game, he felt he needed a MEDICAL on his word-finding abilities.
• Do you have any medical experience?
• medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology
• medical ward
• surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
• You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.

Synonyms

aesculapian, checkup, health check, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination, curative, nonoperative, nonsurgical, therapeutic

Antonyms

surgical, operative

Related Words

medicate, medicational, medicine

Anagrams of medical