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médical

French, adjective/me.di.kal/

médical is a French adjective meaning “medical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui a trait à la médecine ou à la santé”.

What does médical mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    medical

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Ce qui a trait à la médecine ou à la santé. 2. Qui est propre à guérir ; médicinal.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of médical

  • médicale feminine
  • médicaux masculine plural
  • médicales feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce médical?

  • /me.di.kal/
  • \me.di.kal\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to médical

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is médical in French?

médical appears 23 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).