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, isMedicago 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
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Examples
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In an e-mail to her parents from Iraq, she wrote: "Being a medic is what I live to do."
October glimpses 2007
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Personally, medic is my highest played class with pyro coming in second.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Valves TF2 stats are pretty fascinating 2007
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So of course, I had to reverse it and I called the medic over.
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One new tool in medic's bag is a fast-working bandage.
Archive 2003-02-01 2003
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He said he called the medic over and the corpsman came and he took my pulse.
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Instead, he called the medic and had her body taken down to stasis.
Bloodthirst J. M. Dillard 1990
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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."
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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
The UK continues its slide.... GayandRight 2009
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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.
vanishedone commented on the word medic
I cry out for a medic, and WeirdNet brings me a flowering plant.
November 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word medic
Maybe it has healing properties?
November 5, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word medic
Maybe, but according to definition #2, 'some are pests'.
November 5, 2008