| media event |
a public event that is deliberately staged in order to gain publicity from the news media. |
| medial |
in, at, toward, or pertaining to the middle; median. [5 definitions] |
| median |
in, toward, or pertaining to the middle. [6 definitions] |
| mediant |
in music, the third tone of a major or minor scale. |
| mediastinum |
in mammals, the region in the middle of the chest containing the heart and all the thoracic viscera except the lungs and pleura. |
| mediate |
to act as an intermediary in (a dispute) or bring about (an agreement). [5 definitions] |
| mediation |
the act or process of mediating between two disputing or disagreeing parties to bring about a resolution; arbitration. |
| medic1 |
a member of the medical corps in the military. [2 definitions] |
| medic2 |
any of several leguminous plants with compound leaves and small flowers, such as alfalfa. |
| medicable |
able to benefit from medicine; treatable or curable. |
| Medicaid |
(sometimes l.c.) a U.S. public health program that pays certain medical, drug, and hospital bills of those people without the ability to pay. |
| medical |
of or relating to the study or practice of medicine. [2 definitions] |
| medical examiner |
a public official authorized to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons thought to have died of unnatural causes; coroner. [2 definitions] |
| medical jurisprudence |
the branch of law dealing with medical questions such as malpractice or legal certification of the cause of death. |
| medicament |
something used to heal illness or injury; medicine. |
| Medicare |
(sometimes l.c.) a U.S. public health program that pays the hospitalization expenses of aged or retired persons. |
| medicate |
to treat with drugs or medications. |
| medication |
a medicine. [2 definitions] |
| Medici |
a member of a powerful Italian family of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries that included bankers, statesmen, and art patrons, or the name of the family itself. |
| medicinal |
of, pertaining to, or having healing powers; curative. |
| medicine |
a drug or other substance used to cure illness or injury or to alleviate symptoms. [3 definitions] |