medical

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.

Noun

• A medical examination.

Related

Similar words

• curative, therapeutic

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French medical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe ("doctor (physician)"), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir ("doctor").