medical center
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈsɛntər/
- US
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centro médico
- The new medical center will provide specialized care for heart patients.
- academic medical center
- large medical center
- major medical center
I never had to face it again until I'm laying in bed in Brooks Army Medical Center and nothing but time to think.
- I never had to face it again until I'm laying in bed in Brooks Army Medical Center and nothing but time to think.
- And I'm in class when I was a psychiatric resident at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and I heard my professor say that.
- The best physicians in the most highly advanced medical centers are concerned with bleeding and oxygenation.
- I wish I'd seen myself actually walk out of the ring rather than walk out of the Colorado Springs Medical Center.
- Yeah, once or and, and for people that don't know he's the well, he's the head of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center.
- But most interestingly, it's been used in the Australian Outback where they have to go quite some distance before they can reach, say, a Medical Center.
- We heard in the first panel about Boston Medical Center's programs to work with the community on food pantries, on housing, on jump rope challenges.
- And I was at the Queen's Medical Centre in the UK and I remember just being fascinated by states of consciousness and particularly anaesthesia.
- And they took me across the street to a makeshift MASH Medical Center, and they took me specifically into one tent.
- I was taken to UCLA Reagan Medical Centre, which is like hospital.
Examples
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After the accident, she was taken to the nearest medical center for treatment.
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We've got to take him to the medical center.
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This way to the medical center.
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You followed me to the medical center.
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Looks like somebody at the medical center talked about you.
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I first met Ben when he was 6 years old at a large medical center.
Academic text (2001) -
Many of the graduates were hired by the medical center participating in the partnership.
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This is our medical center and temporarily our day-care.
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I got a job at the medical center, practically a janitor.
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The vital role of our nation's hospitals and medical centers in that infrastructure is unquestionable.
Academic text (2002)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area or facility where medical services are concentrated' is directly derivable from combining 'medical' (relating to medicine) with 'center' (a place providing a specific service). This straightforward compositional noun phrase is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English word-formation patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Medical center comes from joining the words medical and center, where medical means health and doctors and center means a place where things are together. Imagine a dot on a map where hospitals, clinics and labs are all together, so it means 'an area' with many medical services.