Mēd'ie-al, a.
a. [Fr. médical, from Lat. medicus, belonging to healing, from mederi, to heal; It. & Sp. medico.]
Sense 1. Pertaining to, or having to do with, medicine, or the art of healing disease; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary.
Sense 2. Containing that which heals; tending to cure; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.
Sense 3. Adapted, intended, or instituted to teach medical science; as, medical schools.
Medical jurisprudence, the science which applies the principles of evidence and diagnosis recognized in medical science to the determination of doubtful questions in courts of justice. Bouvier.—Medical rubber, a coarse flax towel, used for drying the body after bathing. Simmonds.