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biomedical

biomedical

31 4.2
About using biology to help medicine and improve health care
  • adjective
  • /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛdɪkəl/
  • Specialized
: 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.