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Noun
The man was taken to the hospital by medics in critical condition and police said he was immediately taken into surgery.—Mike Darnay, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025 Elway subsequently called 911 and remained with Sperbeck until medics arrived.—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025 But Hennadiy, a Ukrainian medic serving with the First Separate Medical Battalion, said these best practices are being brutally rewritten in Ukraine.—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 21 Dec. 2025 Fire department medics pronounced Gleason dead at the scene.—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for medic
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Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English medike, from Latin medica, from Greek mēdikē, from feminine of mēdikos of Media, from Mēdia Media
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