Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Median.
  • Same as medical.
  • noun A physician or doctor; a medical student.
  • noun A kind of clover, Medicago sativa; Burgundy clover; lucerne.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is Medicago sativa.
  • noun A person who serves to provide medical care.
  • noun (Mil.) A member of the medical corps in the military.
  • noun A medical doctor.
  • noun A medical student.
  • adjective rare Medical.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of medick (“herb of the genus Medicago”).
  • adjective Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.
  • noun A doctor
  • noun A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military
  • noun A medical student.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
  • noun a medical practitioner in the armed forces

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin medicus ("of or belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a noun, medicus, masculine, a physician, doctor, surgeon"), Late Latin medica ("feminine, a female physician, midwife"), from mederi ("to heal").

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Examples

  • In an e-mail to her parents from Iraq, she wrote: "Being a medic is what I live to do."

    October glimpses 2007

  • Personally, medic is my highest played class with pyro coming in second.

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  • So of course, I had to reverse it and I called the medic over.

    Buzzine » Jennifer Garner 2007

  • One new tool in medic's bag is a fast-working bandage.

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  • He said he called the medic over and the corpsman came and he took my pulse.

    CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2004 2004

  • Instead, he called the medic and had her body taken down to stasis.

    Bloodthirst J. M. Dillard 1990

  • As they called the medic to check he was OK, Justin said:

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  • "She did lose her balance and fell, so that's why I called a medic to take a look at her, but it wasn't like she was stumbling-down drunk."

    ClickOnDetroit.com - ClickOnDetroit.com News 2008

  • Naim, incidentally, is the uncle of Anas Naim, who was described as a medic from the Palestinian Red Crescent in the Palestinian media when he was killed during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza City on January 4, but who, as the Post reported this week, is shown in numerous pictures on Hamas Web sites posing with an RPG and a Kalashnikov assault rifle. posted by GayandRight @ 11:05 AM

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  • Some of the cameramen called the medic and pretended to be checking on me and saying this rib might be broken.

    Buzzine » Jennifer Garner 2007

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  • I cry out for a medic, and WeirdNet brings me a flowering plant.

    November 5, 2008

  • Maybe it has healing properties?

    November 5, 2008

  • Maybe, but according to definition #2, 'some are pests'.

    November 5, 2008