medicallyadv.
/ˈmɛdᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈmɛdək(ə)li/ In a medical manner; in or with respect to medical science or practice, or the medical profession; from a medical point of view, on medical grounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adverb]
physically1582
medicinally1621
medically1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xiii. 227 That which chiefly promoted the consideration of these dayes, and medically advanced the same, was the doctrine of Hippocrates. View more context for this quotation
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum Violets are of a laxative quality, and are us'd medically in syrups, juleps, conserves, oils, &c.
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 393 I was willing to hope that the case, not viewed medically, might be rendered more formidable than it really was.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 194/2 When dried, they are medically useful for drawing blisters.
1887 Homœopathic World Nov. 523 These clubs are medically officered by an allopathic practitioner.
1902 Daily Chron. 8 May 6/2 Educated and medically-trained women as workhouse inspectors.
1941 D. Thomas Let. 1 Jan. (1987) 470 I am medically exempted from the Army because of my lungs.
1980 Lancet 19 Jan. 109/1 There were 13 survivors in a series of 24 patients treated medically and surgically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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