medically

Variant of medical

medical definition

medi·cal (med′i kəl)

adjective

of or connected with medicine or the practice or study of medicine

Etymology: Fr médical < LL medicalis < L medicus, physician < IE base *med- (akin to *mē-: see measure), to measure, consider, wise counselor, doctor > OE metan, to measure

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