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

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After being cleared by the infield medical center, Zilisch was expected to be racing this weekend in Texas. Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 Dozens of striking mental health care workers chanted and marched Tuesday outside a Kaiser Permanente medical center on a busy strip of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Katia Riddle, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025 Construction of the four-story medical center is underway just off Southwest Eighth Street near the Palmetto Expressway in Westchester, a mostly residential neighborhood filled with homes, schools, parks and businesses. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025 The ruling was a win for testing giants Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp as well as for academic medical centers, which frequently make their own lab tests and had argued that the Biden administration rule would squelch innovation and drive up compliance costs by more than $1 billion a year. Adriel Bettelheim, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for medical center

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of medical center was in 1917

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“Medical center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medical%20center. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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