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Noun
Sharbs is a critical-care flight medic for the Guard.—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026 An onlooker desperately performed CPR on the victim, and medics took him to Jamaica Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.—John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026 Compassionate Venus squares cosmic medic Chiron, involving your 11th House of Connections and your 2nd House of Manifestation.—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026 The fire department and medics also arrived, and Richardson was later pronounced dead.—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026 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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