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In some senses, medical is marked as informal, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
medical doctor; medical student
Do you have any medical experience?
Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.
medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
Requiring medical treatment.
A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
Pertaining to the state of one's health.
medical examination; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.
medical ward
noun
A medical examination.
You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.
A medical practitioner.
We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.