medical building
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- noun
:
edificio médico
- An old man who walks with a cane and whose face is horribly disfigured by burns hobbles into the medical building.
Examples
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So the family practice and internal medicine clinics relocated to a new medical building nearer the hospital (and further from the train/bus station).
Blog text (13) -
They saw the light on in a medical building and took a chance.
Fiction book (1990) -
Now get up on your feet, and exit this way through the medical building.
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The medical building next door had a parking lot that was practically empty.
Fiction book (2000) -
I've been thinking about that medical building last year.
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It's in that nice medical building on the corner of Guy and Sherbrooke.
Fiction book (2002) -
The phone listing was for a medical building on Comsewogue Road, but she learned, dismayed, that the doctor was out, recovering from an operation.
Fiction book (1996) -
When I got back to the doctor's waiting room on the second floor of a large medical building, I found the staff going around asking everyone to move away from the windows and announcing where we should go if the storm sirens went off.
Blog text (18) -
FYI, we are in a freestanding medical building, and the building next to us is the Dekalb Police Agency; in fact, it overlooks us.
Blog text (4) -
The new medical building in our neighborhood offers a variety of healthcare services to local residents.
Synonyms
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A building where people go to see doctors and get treatment
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A place like a hospital or clinic where people get medical care
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Morphology
The meaning 'a building used for medical/healthcare purposes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'medical' (relating to medicine) with 'building' (a physical edifice). This adjective+noun composition follows standard English and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun medical building gives a clear picture: a medical place inside a building where doctors, clinics and a pharmacy are together. So it means 'a building used for healthcare'.