PREMEDICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does premedical mean? 

• PREMEDICAL (adjective)
  The adjective PREMEDICAL has 2 senses:

1. preparing for the study of medicine

2. preceding and preparing for the study of medicine

  Familiarity information: PREMEDICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREMEDICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preparing for the study of medicine

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

premedical students

Pertainym:

medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Preceding and preparing for the study of medicine

Context example:

premedical courses

Similar:

preceding (existing or coming before)