medical center

noun

plural medical centers

: a large health care facility that provides medical and surgical care and is often affiliated with a medical school

an academic medical center

Examples of medical center in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Courtesy of Kassidy Hooter A local medical center offered three months of financial aid that will carry her through her due date in February and into late March. —Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026

Patrollers administered aid to the 39-year-old woman and transported her to a medical center, CBS News and The Summit Daily reported. —Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026

The motorist was taken to the University of Chicago medical center, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. —William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026

Federal appeals court judges on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling preventing the National Institutes of Health from cutting billions of dollars in support for research overhead at universities, academic medical centers, and other grantee institutions. —Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for medical center

• experimenter
• centre
• enter
• renter
• stentor
• tenter
• dissenter
• indenter
• inventor
• precentor
• preventer
• tormentor