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biomedical

biomedical

31 4.2
About using biology to help medicine and improve health care
  • adjective
  • /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛdɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : biomédico
  • Her studies in biomedical engineering focus on developing innovative medical devices.
  • biomedical research
  • biomedical engineering
  • biomedical model

Luckily for us, we live in an era of breathtaking biomedical advances.

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Examples

  • And he was director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown.

  • Luckily for us, we live in an era of breathtaking biomedical advances.

  • So in the future, what things do you think biomedical engineering is going to produce in the future?

  • I would ask where your biomedical engineering degree was from.

  • So particularly biomedical scientists, we spend a lot of time looking at why things have gone wrong.

  • But thanks to modern biomedical science, the days of waiting and praying are over.

  • You know, most physicians are well meaning, but they come from a perspective of a biomedical model.

  • Special orders and custom jobs are common in the biomedical industry, where every bone and joint is unique.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Dr. Humphrey joined the biomedical engineering department at Yale in 2010.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Most students who go to medical school get some type of biology or biomedical degree because that gives them a lot of the prereqs that medical schools look for.

Synonyms

medical
vsbiomedical
2.8

Relating to doctors, treatment, and the practice of medicine

focuses on applying natural science, especially biology, to healthcare

Compounds

biomedical science
  • Specialized
1 3.9

Study of how the body works and how to treat disease

biomedical cloning
  • Specialized
5.9

Process of making identical cells or organisms from a patient's cells for medical use

How Medical

clinical
  • Specialized
196 4.2
medical
2.8
biomedical
  • Specialized
31 4.2
biological
340 3.5

Surface Forms

biomedical positive

Morphology

biomedical = medical (transparent) = bio + medic + al

Adding bio- to medical directly yields a standard adjective meaning relating to biology and medicine.

Etymology

Biomedical comes from bio- meaning 'life', the same start as biology, and medical meaning 'medicine'. So, biomedical describes work that uses knowledge about living things to help medicine and health.