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The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.

Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

a, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female. -- Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female. -- Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its ex…

That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

Medical. [R.]

Of or pertaining to medicine; medical.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

That department of medical science which treats of miasma.

ithin the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.

That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.

A suffix used in medical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.

The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.

A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or…

Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of children.

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination. Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.

To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

A medical prescription. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.