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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical examination
anechoic
angiocardiography
angiogram
angiography
audiogram
cervical smear
CT colonography
CT scan
CVS
cystoscopy
dioptre
electrocardiogram
Pap smear
PET scan
PillCam
post-irradiation
post-mortem
pre-screening
sperm count
swab

medical | American Dictionary

medical
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmed·ɪ·kəl/
of or relating to medicine, or for the treatment of disease or injury:
She is in her final year of medical school.
Medical research has led to better treatment for diabetes patients.

medically

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈmed·ɪ·kli/
Staying another night in the hospital was not medically necessary, so she was discharged.

medical | Business English

medical
adjective
uk /ˈmedɪkəl/us
relating to medicine or to the treatment of illness or injury:
Despite concerns about security, many doctors think the benefits of having medical records in digital form outweigh the liabilities.
medical treatment/care/services
medical bills/expenses
medical research/equipment/advice
medical
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmedɪkəl/us
HR
an examination done by a doctor to check someone's health:
I failed a routine medical at work last year.
undergo/pass/fail a medicalAll candidates must undergo a medical before being accepted on the scheme.

Examples of medical

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The development of large-scale data collection, for example, has also permitted the development of an 'early warning system' in relation to low-incidence medical complications.
It developed plans to offer medical care, hospital treatment, electricity, and water trucking.
Some medical specialty societies already are recognized as proponents of standards of care by health plans.
Unfortunately, rigorous scientific data are lacking on the efficacy and effectiveness to justify medical practice.
When such inhibition is a reaction to the injury by a mental protective state, he recommends combining the medical treatment with psychological therapy.
Medical language largely replaces other forms of communication.
For the validation, complete medical records were requested for each patient from the participating hospitals for the 12-week study period.
By the end of the century, however, a few women had managed to break the ranks of male professionalism and attain medical degrees.
This setting, it must be stressed, is not a medical one.
There were no medical or technical complications during transport.
These tables are commonly used to summarize medical literature, but they can also be applied to other sources of information.
Perhaps, certain cultural (medical) practices elaborate on masculine, or respectively, feminine, themes.
At the same time, this new technology replaced other medical devices and could thereby create savings, at least in theory.
The technologies developed to address these newly modal medical problems tended not to work as effectively.
Medical residencies are not equal in terms of what they prepare their residents to do and how well each trains its physicians.
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