different between medical vs laudanum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French medical, from Medieval Latin medicalis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English Old English læce (“doctor, physician”). Cognate with Icelandic lækni (“medical”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d?kl?/
• Hyphenation: med?i?cal

Adjective

medical (comparative more medical, superlative most medical)

1. Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

   medical doctor; medical student
2. Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal.

   medical marijuana; medical cannabis; medical treatment

3. Requiring medical treatment.

   A costly medical condition can bankrupt you if it doesn't kill you first.

4. Pertaining to the state of one's health.

   medical examinaton; medical exemption; medical history; medical record; medical diagnosis

5. (Britain) Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means.

   medical ward

Synonyms

• (medicinal): curative, therapeutic

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

medical (plural medicals)

1. (informal) A medical examination.

   You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job.

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.

Related terms

• medicate
• medicine

Anagrams

• camelid, claimed, decimal, declaim, maliced

Interlingua

Adjective

medical (not comparable)

1. medical (pertaining to medicine, health care, etc.)

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicalis, from medius (“middle”).

Adjective

medical m

1. of or relating to the middle finger

Romanian

Etymology

From French médical

Adjective

medical m or n (feminine singular medical?, masculine plural medicali, feminine and neuter plural medicale)

1. medical

Declension

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin laud? (“I praise”), or ladanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (ládanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. See ladanum.

Used by Paracelsus to refer to ladanum gum, and to a compound recipe containing pearls, but apparently not to any preparation of opium; this modern sense was introduced by his followers (Sigerist 1941:540–1).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??d?n?m/, /?l??dn?m/

Noun

laudanum (usually uncountable, plural laudanums)

1. A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.

Derived terms

• Dutchman's laudanum

Translations

Verb

laudanum (third-person singular simple present laudanums, present participle laudanuming, simple past and past participle laudanumed)

1. (transitive) To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
2. (rare) To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.

References

• Sigerist, Henry E. (1941). "Laudanum in the works of Paracelsus". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 9 (5):530–544. [4]
• laudanum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “laudanum”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Czech

Noun

laudanum n

1. laudanum (tincture of opium)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.da.n?m/

Noun

laudanum m (usually uncountable, plural laudanums)

1. laudanum

Further reading

• “laudanum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lau?.da.num/, [???äu?d?än???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lau?.da.num/, [?l??u?d??num]

Noun

laudanum n (genitive laudan?); second declension

1. laudanum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• laudanum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)