medically
Americanadverb
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in a way that relates to the science or practice of medicine.
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as a treatment for illness, pain, or injury; therapeutically.
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in a way that relates to one's health.
Example Sentences
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And many American doctors initially opposed the procedure as dangerous, medically unproven, and expensive because of physicians’ often-hefty fees and the cost of maintaining facilities for quarantining people temporarily after they were inoculated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of therapeutic injections in the world, many of them medically unnecessary.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
“They’re not medically significant,” said Pat Wooden, the insect identification lab manager at Virginia Tech.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The AI images are often medically unlikely or impossible.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
At forty-eight, she was quite old to be having a baby in the medically perilous nine-teenth century.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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