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

The trial was small, examining fewer than 100 individuals across medical centers in England and Canada over a relatively short six-month window. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Health insurance costs are part of the reason why physicians at UC’s medical centers are collecting cards to unionize, according to Perez. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Three men were dropped off outside the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw medical center on Monday night. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Intensive treatments, like gene therapies, will still need to be given at academic medical centers, McClellan said. — Gerry Smith, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for medical center

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