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adjectiveof or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
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nouna thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the persontype of:
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"medical treatment" "pneumonia is a medical disease"requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgeryOpposite:
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"the medical profession" "a medical student" "medical school"relating to the study or practice of medicine
Definition that contains medical
- quack medically unqualified
- hippocrates medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
- otoscope medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane)
- quackery medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
- cardiograph medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart
- electroencephalograph medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain
- empiricism medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings
- thermograph medical instrument that uses an infrared camera to reveal temperature variations on the surface of the body
- holistic medicine medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors
- life support medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive