Medical Definition–adjective | 1. | of or pertaining to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment. | | 2. | curative; medicinal; therapeutic: medical properties. | | 3. | pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means. | | 4. | pertaining to or giving evidence of the state of one's health: a medical discharge from the army; a medical examination. | –noun | 5. | something done or received in regard to the state of one's health, as a medical examination. | |
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Dictionary Definition–noun, plural -ar⋅ies. | 1. | a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary: a dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary. | | 2. | a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usually arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary; a dictionary of mathematics. | | 3. | Computers. | a. | a list of codes, terms, keys, etc., and their meanings, used by a computer program or system. | | b. | a list of words used by a word-processing program as the standard against which to check the spelling of text entered. | | |
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