medicaladj.n.
/ˈmɛdᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈmɛdək(ə)l/ A. adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, or designating the science or practice of medicine in general, or its practitioners.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective]
medicinala1387
curative?a1425
physic?a1425
physical?a1425
medicinablec1475
Aesculapian1604
medical1646
physico-medical1677
sanative1695
medic1700
iatrical1816
iatric1851
sanatory1870
med1933
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica To Rdr. sig. a 4 In this work attempts will exceed performances: it being composed by snatches of time, as medicall vacations,..would permit us. View more context for this quotation
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋232 Nor have not since my pedantisme and junior practise in the medical profession.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 191 Accusing its medical preparations of empyreumatism.
1741 (title) An essay on vital suspension: being an attempt to investigate and to ascertain those diseases, in which the principles of life are apparently extinguished. By a medical practitioner.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiv. 71 I summoned the chief medical artists, and got the precious remains..embalmed.
1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772: Pt. 2 247 The number of medical students are now annually reckoned at about 300.
1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) II. lxii. 222 I shall observe your prohibition not to refer you to any medical book.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 364 Such an excess of acid is therefore useless, especially in medical practice.
1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. ix. 17 It was likewise called the Herculean complaint, an appellation which medical etymologists are puzzled to explain.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 120 The medical journals..are numerous in their descriptions of London knife-eaters.
1835 F. D. Maurice Let. 6 Oct. in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. xiii. 186 If I could get any influence over the medical students, I should indeed think myself honoured.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. iii. 26 He went very steadily to work..advertising in medical journals, reading testimonials, sifting character and qualifications.
1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 19 Field Medical Paniers, fitted complete with instruments..etc.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 778 Neither the patient nor the medical attendant.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience i. 13 Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan He..wrote on the pedigree of disease, on leprosy, and on countless other subjects in the medical journals.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1130/1 Mala praxis, where a medical practitioner injures his patient by neglect, want of skill, or for experiment. Ordinary cases of mala praxis give rise to a right of action for damages.
1971 Lancet 29 May 1124/1 A radiologist to the N.H.S. is medical and a radiographer non-medical.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Mar. 54/1 Julien Offray de La Mettrie..was perhaps the most intensely medical and the most materialistic of all doctor-philosophers.
b. Of or relating to medicine as distinguished from surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, etc.; (of a disease or a sick person) requiring treatment or diagnosis by a physician as opposed to a surgeon; (of a treatment) carried out by means other than surgical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics
hoteOE
redeOE
foulOE
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whitec1450
Naples1507
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ambulatory1684
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animated1721
progressive1736
cagastric1753
vegetative1803
left-handed1804
specific1804
subacute1811
animate1816
gregarious1822
vernal1822
ambilateral1824
subchronic1831
regressive1845
nummular1866
postoperative1872
ambulant1873
non-surgical1888
progredient1891
spodogenous1897
spodogenic19..
non-invasive1932
early-onset1951
adult-onset1957
non-specific1964
1676 tr. H. Busschof & H. Van Roonhuyse (title) Two Treatises, the one medical,..The other partly chirurgical, partly medical.
1699 J. Colbatch (title) A collection of tracts, chirurgical and medical.
1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor VI. iii. 58 I immediately enquired for surgical and medical assistance.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 269 Annot Lyle..was possessed of a slight degree of medical and even surgical skill.
1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 495 The lotion known in medical and surgical practice, as the black wash.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 74 Internal, or as it may be styled ‘medical’ pyæmia.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 174 The preceding remarks..relate only to the medical thromboses, and not to the septic and suppurative thrombo-phlebitides of the surgeon.
1904 Hospital 11 June (Suppl.) 14 By medical diseases is meant those diseases which are situated either as to their source or their origin in one or other of the three great cavities of the body.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 7/3 The general surgical and medical work is in charge of a medical and surgical ‘firm’, each consisting of two visiting and one house physician or surgeon.
1976 Lancet 15 Nov. 1061/1 Triage at an early stage can label the patient with coma as surgical or medical.
1992 Dogs Today Dec. 28 (advt.) There is a simple medical alternative to surgical spaying.
c. Characteristic of or appropriate for a doctor or other medical practitioner.
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a1795 S. Bishop in Poet. Wks. (1796) II. v. 165 Now on medical heads one views Bags, bobs, curls, scratches, clubs, and queues!
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. iii. 195 He had got into reputation with the public by a certain professional slang, humoured by a medical face.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. 181 She heard the medical creak of his shoes as he again descended.
1960 A. Christie Adventure of Christmas Pudding 209 He said with a remarkable lack of medical decorum: ‘That you, Poirot, old horse?’
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow ii. 266 Down both the man's cheeks runs a terrible rash..in whose symmetry Slothrop, had he a medical eye, could have read drug reaction.
1996 Independent 23 July ii. 7/3 So what about medical humour? It's black, it's brutal and there's a lot of poo in it.
d. Of, relating to, on account of, or giving evidence of the state of a person's health, esp. in medical report, medical history, medical benefit. Cf. medical certificate n. at Compounds.
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1845 T. M. Greenhow (title) Medical report of the case of Miss H. M.
1892 A. M. Anderson Criminal Law Scotl. v. xiii. 252 Medical reports are made on soul and conscience, read at the trial, and sworn to as true.
1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55 §10 His right to medical benefit, sanatorium benefit, and maternity benefit shall be suspended.
1945 Release & Resettlement (H.M. Govt.) xii. 40 The benefits of the National Health Insurance Scheme include medical benefit (i.e. free treatment by an insurance doctor and medicine).
1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 31/2 His past medical history was unremarkable except for a previous hospitalization for the ingestion of camphorated oil.
1991 FlyPast (BNC) Nov. 24 After about six months Stateside and more operations, I was given a medical discharge with 100% disability.
2. Curative; medicinal.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective]
medicinala1384
wholesomea1387
healinga1398
medicinablea1398
restorativea1398
sanative14..
curatory?a1425
remediable1437
mildlya1475
curable1483
recurablea1500
curative1525
eradicative1543
good1580
physical1580
medicable1590
sanable1598
balsamic1605
therapeutical1606
medicinary1607
medicative1644
medical1646
therapeutic1646
salutary1649
salvative1653
boethetic1656
medicamentary1656
recuperatory1656
sanitating1656
medicamental1657
medicamentous1659
medicating1705
balmy1747
salving1751
sanatorya1832
salubrious1855
medicatory1864
recuperative1872
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 269 The membranous covering, commonly called the silly how..is..preserved with great care, not onely as medicall in diseases, but [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 125 The white umbrella or medicall bush of Elder, is an Epitome of this order.
1790 W. Buchan (title) Letter to the patentee, concerning the medical properties of the fleecy hosiery.
1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 450 Medical properties and uses.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. iv. 303 The essential medical principles in vegetables.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 141 A well-known type is the medical rose, grown..for the preparation of rose-water by distillers.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 154/1 The medical status of ivory was based on its alkaline properties.
1938 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 4 57 Tobacco, he said, was thought by Europe to be a medical herb, and its use for pleasure was heartily disapproved.
1967 J. A. Broster Red Blanket Valley 127 The medical properties of this bulb were known to the Bushmen and Hottentots.
1992 Sci. Amer. July 24/1 In the course of trying to acquire useful medical plants in India, the Dutch learned that their own classification methods were less sophisticated and efficient than the medicobotanical systems of an Indian caste—the Ezhava.
B. n.† 2. U.S. A vial made of glass tubing. Obsolete. rare.
1. colloquial. A medical practitioner, medical officer, or medical student.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun]
physician?c1225
leecherc1374
practiserc1387
doctora1400
flesh-leecha1400
leechman14..
mediciner?a1425
miria1425
M.D.1425
medicine?c1450
practitioner?1543
minister1559
doc1563
artist1565
medicus1570
medicianera1578
Aesculapius1586
Dra1593
pisspot1592
medician1597
physicianer1598
medicinary1599
pisspot1600
velvet-cap1602
healer1611
Galena1616
physiner1616
clyster1621
clyster-pipe1622
hakim1623
medic1625
practicant1630
medico1647
physicker1649
physicster1689
Aesculapian1694
nim-gimmer1699
pill-monger1706
medical man1784
meester1812
medical1823
pill-gilder1824
therapeutist1830
pill1835
pill roller1843
med1851
pill-peddler1855
therapeutic1858
squirt1859
medicine man1866
pill pusher1879
therapist1886
doser1888
internist1894
pill-shooter1911
whitecoat1911
quack1919
vet1925
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > medical student > [noun]
medic1823
medical1823
medico1844
preceptee1955
1823 N. Hawthorne in N. Hawthorne & Wife (1885) I. 111 He is the best scholar among the medicals.
1834 J. Halley in Life (1842) 15 He determined..as he said ‘to beat the medicals’.
1864 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 124 To distinguish a jolly young medical from a prematurely sharp leguleian.
1903 Midland Inst. Mag. Feb. 113 The..only medical elected to a University headship since William Harvey was warden of Merton in 1644.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 68 In making his report to the O.C. while the Medical dressed his arm, he only gave the barest and briefest account of his successful patrol.
1971 Lancet 3 July 40/2 Most of the medicals in my department spell it wheal, most of the secretaries prefer weal.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > phial or ampoule > specific
medical1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Medical, a small bottle or vial made from glass tubing.
3. = medical examination n. at Compounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun]
medical examination1842
exam1891
medical1917
physical1934
workup1945
check-up1958
1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub i. 27 It was neither the x and y part of the business nor the ‘medical’ which caused me qualms. It was the dreaded interview.
1946 H. Wayne Two Odd Soldiers i. 7 The Recruiting Officer welcomed and encouraged us..and told us to present ourselves on the following Tuesday for our ‘medical’.
1973 Times 1 June 5/6 (heading) Medicals for drivers urged.
1984 J. Gathorne-Hardy Doctors (1987) ix. 83 Nearly all GPs do insurance medicals.
4. colloquial. The course of study or examination taken by medical students. rare.
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1938 N. Marsh Death in White Tie x. 103 He wanted me to go to Edinburgh to take my medical... I wanted to go to Thomas's.
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medical audit n. the evaluation of current clinical practice, examination of records, etc., undertaken to monitor standards of patient care, diagnostic accuracy, etc., in hospitals and other medical establishments.
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1956 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Oct. 648/1 One of the problems in establishing a procedure for the medical audit..is to single out..a few features that are essential to..the desired end-result.
1992 Age & Ageing Jan. 72/1 In common with other findings in medical audit the specialists tended to perform better in the management of conditions in which they had specialized then did the generalists.
medical auditing n. the process or result of undertaking a medical audit.
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1956 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Oct. 654/2 The purpose of medical auditing is to make certain that the full benefits of medical knowledge are being applied effectively to the needs of patients.
1991 Internat. Jrnl. Bio-med. Computing 29 119 Medical auditing based on individual diagnoses or specific therapies is well established.
medical board n. a body of medical experts responsible for the medical examination of soldiers, the maintenance of public health, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > health officer > [noun]
surgeon-general1777
medical board1796
medical officer1817
medical examiner1820
health-officer1856
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > military physician > army
surgeon1591
medical board1796
pill1835
1796 Regulations for Improving Situation Regimental Surgeons 11 (heading) Instructions from the Army Medical Board to the Regimental Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons, referred to in the foregoing Warrant.
1802 (title) Facts and observations relative to the Kine Pock, drawn up by the Medical Board of the New York Institution.
1843 Times 29 Nov. 4/3 Two distinct medical boards have declared themselves satisfied as to his sound state of health.
1958 Observer 9 Nov. 4/4 Medical boards were always being begged by browned-off invalids to pass them fit for active service.
1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 119 Six months and many operations and medical boards later John ‘Patch’ Williams..was back on parade with other Borneo veterans.
medical-board v. rare (transitive) to refer (a person) for consideration by a medical board.
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1947 L. Hastings Dragons are Extra iii. 63 He was then medical-boarded and sent to the nursing-home in England.
medical certificate n. a certificate from a doctor, attesting the state of a person's health.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > medical certificate
medical certificate1839
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xv. 131 A very little more and it [sc. a back comb] must have entered her skull. We have a medical certifiket that if it had, the tortershell would have affected the brain.
1853 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1952) 12 The medical certificate would be quite sufficient, and..without his appearing the fellowship was safe.
1914 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 210 One could eat..in one's cabin without a medical certificate from the doctor.
1988 R. Tisserand Aromatherapy for Everyone (1990) iv. 92 The patient was given a medical certificate by her general practitioner with the express advice to go and hide for a month.
medical electricity n. now historical the use of electricity in medical therapy.
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1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 399 Every body has consider'd what the Italians printed..upon the subject of medical electricity, as too hasty a publication.
1778 T. A. Mann Let. 29 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 416 We are here occupied and divided upon Medical Electricity.
1889 E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words 8 A.C.C., an abbreviation used in medical electricity for Anodic Closure Contraction, or the contraction observed on closing the circuit when the anode is lying over the muscle.
2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 475 The first two chapters concentrate on the ‘origins’ of medical electricity in the late 1740s.
medical electrician n. a medical therapist who specializes in medical electricity.
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1814 G. J. Singer Elem. Electr. iii. iv. 286 Mr. Partington, whose experience as a medical electrician is considerable.
1894 Manufacturer & Builder Oct. 236/2 [A letter from] Donald McDougall, medical electrician, of Cincinnati, of which we print the accompanying abstract.
2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 475 German-speaking medical electricians..typically relied on physicians to witness and evaluate their therapeutic practice.
medical examination n. an examination to establish the state of a person's health or physical fitness; the process of conducting such an examination.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun]
medical examination1842
exam1891
medical1917
physical1934
workup1945
check-up1958
1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 100/2 The unwillingness of the fair sufferers to submit to medical examination renders it impossible to ascertain with precision all the symptoms of this disease.
1897 Daily News 5 Feb. 10/5 Owing to the breakdown of the medical examinations at Bombay numerous pilgrims had already reached Calcutta.
1935 S. G. Leigh Guide to Life Assurance (ed. 4) viii. 92 Many people have an aversion from the medical examination.
1990 Pilot Oct. 60/2 The database..will alert staff if any medical examination report..shows that the applicant has dropped below any of these standards.
medical examiner n. (a) a doctor who carries out an examination for health or physical fitness (also in the titles of medical periodicals); (b) U.S. a medically qualified public officer whose duty is to investigate deaths that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform post-mortems, and to initiate inquests.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > health officer > [noun]
surgeon-general1777
medical board1796
medical officer1817
medical examiner1820
health-officer1856
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > examiner
examiner1672
medical examiner1820
screener1977
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > conductor of inquests or coroner > types of
coronerc1325
crowner1327
purpressure1477
medical examiner1820
1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth I. iii. 132 The wretched inmate of a similar mansion, when produced before a medical examiner, was reported to be a complete Albinos.
1877 in Acts & Resolves Mass. Bay 580 The governor shall nominate..able and discreet men, learned in the science of medicine, to be medical examiners.
1937 T. A. Gonzales et al. Legal Med. & Toxicol. ii. 9 The coroner has investigative and judicial powers; the medical examiner can conduct only an investigation.
1990 M. S. Peck Bed by Window vii. 122 The medical examiner went through the usual ifs, ands, and buts about the degree of lividity and the unreliability of rectal temperatures.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger
ring fingereOE
leech-fingerc1000
leechc1290
leechman14..
medicinable finger?a1475
ring man?c1475
wedding-finger1543
nameless finger1584
medicinal finger1598
physic finger1621
physical finger1623
physician finger1623
medical finger1653
marriage finger1711
ring digit1867
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. viii. 42 On the medical finger of his right hand, he had a Ring made Spire wayes.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. App. 334 They called it also the Medical Finger, and were so superstitious as to mix up their Medicines and Potions with it.
medical garden n. a garden devoted to the cultivation of medicinal plants; a physic garden.
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a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 217 I went to see the Medical Garden at Westminster, well stored with plants, under Morgan a very Skillfull Botanist.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 362/2 Four acres are devoted to a medical garden.
1995 Folia Zoologica 44 111 The structure and dynamics of the breeding bird communities in three parks of Bratislava (Janko Kral Park, Botanical Garden, Medical Garden) were studied.
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1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Medical Greek, the slang used by medical students at the hospitals. At the London University they have a way of disguising English..which consists in transposing the initials of words, e.g., ‘poke a smipe’—smoke a pipe.
1885 Househ. Words 20 June 155 Medical students have liberally assisted in the formation of slang, the special department thereof being known as medical Greek.
medical hall n. Irish English and Indian English a pharmacy, a chemist's shop.
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1800 Caledonian Mercury 1 Dec. On Friday, Nov. 28, at the Medical Hall, Surgeons Square, the election of the annual Presidents of the Royal Medical Society took place.]
1859 Irish Times 29 Oct. 2/2 (advt.) G. O. & Co's Mild Aperient Pills..prepared and sold at their Medical Halls, 107 Grafton-Street, and 61, Dame-Street, Dublin.
1893 J. T. Franklin Mid-day Gleanings 65 From Meharry's Medical Hall,..We welcome Dr. Otto home.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 637 Purchased by him at 10.20 a.m. on the morning of 27 June 1886 at the medical hall of Francis Dennehy.
1938 J. Cary Castle Corner 279 Ah, ye dirty devil, and what sort of a drip are ye to be dropped in a medical hall.
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. 121 Medical-hall... This noun is found in many, perhaps all, Asian varieties of English.
1991 Eng. Today Apr. 36/1 Baumgardner has asserted that cabin is used for office, medical hall for a drug store, [etc.]. This might be true for some contributors to the daily newspapers but it is not true for most users of PE [sc. Pakistani English].
medical imagery n. = medical imaging n.
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1972 Proc. Soc. Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 35 51/1 Implicit in any discussion on the digital analysis of medical imagery is the assumption that the photographic data can be converted into computer compatible form.
1993 World Jrnl. Surg. 17 489/1 Despite the dramatic development of modern medical imagery..the real possibility..of curing the patients..remains limited.
medical imaging n. the use of electromagnetic or ultrasonic radiation to produce images of organs and tissues within the body for diagnostic or screening purposes.
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1973 Radiology 109 417 (heading) Ultrasonic holography. A promising medical imaging tool.
1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality i. i. 31 Everything from obstetrics to orthopedics has been affected by the tremendous progress in medical imaging technologies—driven by the introduction of the computer as a means of manipulating digitized image information.
medical indigence n. originally and chiefly U.S. = medical indigency n.
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1938 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 30 July 429/1 Aid to the indigent or..to what are called the medically indigent if their medical indigence can be established.
1987 N.Y. Democratic Socialist Apr. 3/1 Approximately 80 percent of the uninsured are workers and their dependents... The Reagan budget cuts..targeted the working poor.., forcing this large group of Americans and their dependents into medical indigence.
2012 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 26 Mar. Access to comprehensive brain injury rehab and medical care eases..medical indigence, suicide and involvement with the criminal or juvenile justice system.
medical indigency n. originally and chiefly U.S. the condition or state of a person who lacks the resources (in later use esp. health insurance) to receive or afford medical attention or treatment.Medical indigency is established based on varying criteria, and may qualify a person for financial assistance.Now frequently as a modifier, as in medical indigency fund, medical indigency programme, etc.
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1932 Ironwood (Mich.) Times 9 Dec. 5/3 If any doctors in the county are encouraging medical indigency, the county should so report the names of the doctors to the medical association for investigation.
1968 Med. Care 6 71/2 The determination of the income criteria to define ‘medical indigency’ initially was left to the states, and these vary widely.
2021 Idaho Press-Tribune (Nexis) 16 Mar. a5 The county medical indigency program, which pays the catastrophic medical bills of those who can't afford to pay, is funded entirely by local property taxes.
medical jurisprudence n. the law as it relates to the practice of medicine; (formerly also) †the application of medical knowledge to legal problems, forensic medicine (obsolete).
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society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > medical law
medical jurisprudence1788
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > forensic medicine
forensic medicine1785
medical jurisprudence1788
1788 S. Farr (title) Elements of medical jurisprudence.
1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 8 A sort of mixed science known by the name of Forensic Medicine or Medical Jurisprudence.
1875 A. S. Taylor Poisons (ed. 3) i. 1 This subject [sc. toxicology] is commonly regarded and treated as a part of Medical Jurisprudence.
1937 T. A. Gonzales et al. Legal Med. & Toxicol. p. vii The section on legal medicine is concerned with the principal pathologic conditions encountered in cases of forensic importance,..and medical jurisprudence or that part of the law which deals with the practice of the physician.
1937 T. A. Gonzales et al. Legal Med. & Toxicol. p. vii The subjects which are considered a part of medical jurisprudence, such as the corpus delicti,..malpractice, insanity, and insurance.
1982 I. Ghanem (title) Islamic medical jurisprudence.
medical man n. now somewhat archaic a (male) medical practitioner (physician, surgeon, etc.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun]
physician?c1225
leecherc1374
practiserc1387
doctora1400
flesh-leecha1400
leechman14..
mediciner?a1425
miria1425
M.D.1425
medicine?c1450
practitioner?1543
minister1559
doc1563
artist1565
medicus1570
medicianera1578
Aesculapius1586
Dra1593
pisspot1592
medician1597
physicianer1598
medicinary1599
pisspot1600
velvet-cap1602
healer1611
Galena1616
physiner1616
clyster1621
clyster-pipe1622
hakim1623
medic1625
practicant1630
medico1647
physicker1649
physicster1689
Aesculapian1694
nim-gimmer1699
pill-monger1706
medical man1784
meester1812
medical1823
pill-gilder1824
therapeutist1830
pill1835
pill roller1843
med1851
pill-peddler1855
therapeutic1858
squirt1859
medicine man1866
pill pusher1879
therapist1886
doser1888
internist1894
pill-shooter1911
whitecoat1911
quack1919
vet1925
1784 W. Hayley Happy Prescription iii. i, in Plays of Three Acts 77 Mankind credit things most absurd, When they come from the mouth of a medical man.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman vii. 278 I have conversed, as man with man, with medical men, on anatomical subjects; and compared the proportions of the human body with artists.
1819 H. F. Cary Jrnl. 1 Jan. (1847) II. viii. 36 The medical men had lately prevailed on many to leave off stimulants.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 432 All the medical men of note in London were summoned.
1919 Nature 3 Nov. 304/1 One of these forms of dwarfism is known to medical men as achondroplasia.
1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers ii. 49 Soon after that point sexological writings began to fascinate American medical men tremendously.
medical marijuana n. cannabis or cannabinoids used to treat a disease or medical condition.
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1976 San Francisco Examiner 5 Dec. (This World Suppl.) 12/2 (heading) Medical Marijuana... A teacher who had been arrested for growing marijuana..defended himself by averring that the weed was used to treat the threat of blindness from glaucoma.
2001 Times 31 July 10/4 In much of Europe the debate over medical marijuana is obsolete.
2010 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. Dec. 64/2 Physicians must have ‘bona fide’ relationships with clients to whom they recommend medical marijuana.
medical mask n. a mask that covers the mouth and nose and acts as a barrier to the transmission of infectious agents; (now) esp. one designed for use by medical personnel when interacting with patients.
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1895 Cincinnati Enquirer 30 Nov. (heading) 12/3 Medical masks. Masks for French soldiers engaged in warfare in the colonies,..as a protection from the no less dangerous cohorts of fevers.
1953 Binghamton (N.Y.) Press 12 Aug. 12/1 Those visiting the TB victims..will have to wear medical masks.
2020 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 20 May Medical masks should be saved for health care workers, first responders and people who are sick but have to leave the house.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > crisis > interval between crises
medical month1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 213 Which..makes 26. dayes and 22. howres, called by Physitians the medicall month; introduced by Galen..for the better compute of Decretory or Criticall dayes. View more context for this quotation
medical officer n. a doctor appointed by a company or a civilian or military authority to attend to matters relating to health (in Great Britain the public post of ‘medical officer of health’ was abolished on 1 April 1974).
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > health officer > [noun]
surgeon-general1777
medical board1796
medical officer1817
medical examiner1820
health-officer1856
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > military physician
surgeon1591
medical officer1916
M.O.1916
quack1919
prick farrier1961
1817 W. Adams (title) A Letter to the..Directors of Greenwich Hospital, containing an exposure of the measures resorted to by the Medical Officers of the London Eye Infirmary.
1841 C. Dickens Let. 29 Oct. (1969) II. 414 With regard to the Medical officers it will be best to say that I am going out of town.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing i. 10 I have known a medical officer keep his ward windows hermetically closed.
1916 W. Owen Let. 10 Feb. (1967) 379 The Medical Officer says I should get them removed.
1964 Times 22 Feb. 6/2 Medical officers of health should be more closely concerned with the functions of their local authority that had a bearing on health in any way.
1991 Pulse 6 Apr. 46/3 The local district medical officer..will..institute a programme whereby the patient is seen by an environmental control assessor.
medical redshirt n. U.S. Sport (chiefly American Football) a college student withdrawn from organized athletic events for a year for medical reasons without losing that year from the four years of eligibility allowed in college competition; cf. redshirt n. 4.
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1979 Washington Post 23 May e6/6 St. John's High at center, snapping to Dayle Tate, the former All-Met Lee Lancer. Both are coming off medical redshirt years.
1984 Sports Illustr. 16 Jan. 27/3 Unfortunately, it was also Reynolds and Smith who missed nearly the entire 1982–83 season and were given medical redshirt status.
medical register n. (formerly) a list or register of doctors; (later) spec. a register of all doctors legally in practice (first published in the United Kingdom in 1859).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > register of doctors
medical register1780
panel1911
1780 (title) The medical register for the year 1779.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 48 §14 The medical register shall contain a separate list of the names and addresses of the colonial practitioners.
1926 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 430/1 A few years ago the Government of the Irish Free State announced that it had decided to establish a separate Medical Register.
2000 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 2 Feb. Currently, doctors struck off the Medical Register can apply to be reinstated 10 months later.
medical registration n. registration as a doctor; inclusion in a medical register.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > register of doctors > act of being registered
medical registration1851
1851 (title) A letter to Sir George Grey on medical registration and the present condition of medical corporations. By Emeritus.
1926 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 322/2 A decision on the medical registration question has not yet been reached.
1994 Ann. Acad. Med. Singapore 23 614 Specialist accreditation in anaesthesia in the United Kingdom currently requires a minimum of six years recognised training after full medical registration.
medical school n. a school or faculty of a college or university in which medicine is studied.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical training > [noun] > medical school
physic-school1634
medical school1765
1765 in J. Carson Hist. Med. Dept. Univ. of Pennsylvania (1869) 55 The institution of Medical Schools in this country has been a favorite object of my attention.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 550/2 We had lighted upon the University, in the act of organizing an extensive Medical School.
1909 J. S. Fletcher in H. Greene Crooked Counties (1973) 228 He was anxious to see one or two experiments..being carried on in some of the medical schools.
1992 New Scientist 11 Jan. 42/1 While health services flounder, doctors grow unhappier and medical school admissions drop.
medical tourism n. the practice of travelling to another country for medical treatment, often combined with a holiday.
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1967 Matica (Zagreb) Feb. 73/3 Apart from commercial tourism in Yugoslavia much attention has been paid to medical tourism and a lot has been done to incorporate our baths and health resorts into medical tourism.
1993 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 21 July a5/6 Some claim Cuba pushes ‘medical tourism’—expensive treatments for those with dollars—at the expense of its citizens.
2005 BusinessWeek 20 June 22/2 Want a new kidney or a hip? Visit one of India's high-tech ‘medical tourism’ hospitals and get the procedure for less than half the cost in the U.S. or Canada.
medical tourist n. originally North American (a) a traveller interested in medical methodology and systems in other countries; (also) a person who wishes to study medicine abroad (rare); (b) a person who travels abroad for medical treatment or improvement in health.
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1841 Satirist 28 Mar. 98/3 Dr. James Johnson is the most intellectual of our medical tourists, and his journeyings..may be always referred to and perused with pleasure.
1899 Med. News 3 June 697/2 Medical Study Abroad... Certain practical problems connected with a trip abroad..are sometimes a mountainous molehill in the prospective medical tourist's path.
1949 C. M. Wilson One Half People viii. 251 Japanese medicine and health administration, though perhaps never so promising as pictured by medical tourists or diplomats, backslid deplorably between 1930 and 1945.
1964 C. Simpson Take me to Russia Green Pages 3/2 Medical Tourists are provided with—Accommodation in a hotel or a sanatorium in conformity with Luxe or Tourist class; systematic medical control, laboratory analysis, electrotherapeutics, inhalation, X-ray, medical treatment and medicine.
2002 M. Thamm How-to-be S. Afr. Handbk. 1 Because of post-operative discomfort, the medical tourist is not much of a party animal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
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