medic
medic Lexical Profile
medic Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A person trained to provide emergency first aid and basic medical care in the field, such as a paramedic or military medical corpsman.
"A team of emergency medics arrived at the festival grounds within minutes to treat the dehydrated runner."
A medical practitioner, doctor, or medical student (used informally).
"Several junior medics volunteered at the community clinic over the weekend to help administer flu vaccines."
Any of various leguminous plants of the genus Medicago (including alfalfa and bur clover), native to the Mediterranean basin and widely cultivated as livestock forage and soil-improving cover crops, characterized by trifoliate leaves and small, often coiled seed pods.
"The farmer planted a cover crop of black medic to enrich the nitrogen levels in the pasture soil."
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Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the mid-17th century, 'medic' derives from the Latin 'medicus', meaning 'physician' or 'healer', from the verb 'mederi' ('to heal'). The modern sense referring to emergency or military medical personnel emerged in the early 20th century as a shortened form of 'medical corpsman' or 'medical student'.