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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That means many kids who live far from major medical centers — like Pray’s students in Moses Lake, a town of 25,000 that’s 200 miles from Seattle — won’t ever be seen at such a clinic.
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Dozens of health care workers walked the picket line outside the medical center in Roseville Tuesday morning, chanting and carrying signs, many wearing raincoats and ponchos.
—Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Thousands of striking Kaiser Permanente California health care workers walked off the job Tuesday at medical centers in Santa Clara and Oakland in a push for higher pay and better staffing.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Dozens of health care workers walked the picket line outside the medical center in Roseville Tuesday morning, chanting and carrying signs, many wearing raincoats and ponchos.
—Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Thousands of striking Kaiser Permanente California health care workers walked off the job Tuesday at medical centers in Santa Clara and Oakland in a push for higher pay and better staffing.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for medical center
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“Medical center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medical%20center. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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