medical Definition

medical
adj

1. Belonging or relating to doctors or the science or practice of medicine.

Thesaurus: healing, medicinal, curative, therapeutic, restorative, corrective, cathartic, Hippocratic.
2. Concerned with medicine, or treatment by medicine, rather than surgery.

noun

1. A medical examination to discover a person's physical health.

Derivative: medically
adverb

Etymology: 17c: from French médical, from Latin medicus physician, from mederi to heal.