medical
/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/ adjective A2- 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
- Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery. · medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology· surgical therapy only when medical therapy fails
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You bear every sign of the busy medical man, with calls on him every hour."
"I have the ordinary knowledge of the educated medical man," he observed, with some stiffness.
Had it been The Lancet or The British Medical Journal it would have helped me.
A devoted medical man, if sufficiently paid, would easily be found to take charge of the sufferer.
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