| 释义 |
preˈmedical, a. (n.) Chiefly U.S.
[pre- B. 1.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating subjects studied in preparation for a medical course. Also ellipt., a premedical course of studies. Cf. pre-med a. (n.1).
1904Bot. Gaz. XXXVII. 225 This general text-book of botany is written for premedical and pharmaceutical students in particular. 1928Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Sept. 363/2 The elementary sciences, and pre-medical subjects of chemistry, physics, biology, and botany, are in the curriculum to familiarize the student with the structure and behaviour of the materials with which, and upon which, he will have to work. 1940A. Huxley Let. 7 July (1969) 455 Matthew has got through his second year of pre-medical quite well. 1961Lancet 26 Aug. 484/1 Major Titov's first question, on returning from Space recently, concerned his wife's premedical examination results. 1976New Yorker 16 Feb. 41/3 They reserved their serious efforts for the medievalists, true scientists, linguists, pre⁓law and pre-medical students, other scholars. |