medicaladj/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/

• 1

  Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

  • medical doctor; medical student
  • Do you have any medical experience?
• 2

  Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.

  • medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment
• 3

  Requiring medical treatment.

  • A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.
• 4

  Pertaining to the state of one's health.

  • medical examination; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis
• 5

  Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.

  • medical ward
• 6

  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

medicalnoun/ˈmɛdɪkl̩/

• 1

  informalA medical examination.

  • You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.
  • After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.
• 2

  archaicA medical practitioner.

  • We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him.
  • There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.