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to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

ry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies. [Obs.]

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

st, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

ngaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

struction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.…

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, e…

n, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n. (Med.)

s if ill. The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. Tylor.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. [U.S.]

the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.