medical

1. (informal) A medical examination.Examples: "You'll have to get a medical before you apply for that job."; "After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for."; "All UK train drivers must undergo a medical every three years up to the age of 54, and annually from then on."informal

2. (archaic) A medical practitioner.Examples: "We medicals have a better way than that. When we dislike a friend of ours, we dissect him."; "There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period."archaic