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Medical examination   /mˈɛdəkəl ɪgzˌæmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Medical examination

noun
1.
A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person.  Synonyms: checkup, health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam.






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"Medical examination" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be definitely understood and seriously pondered, and it is this: no emigration agency, no board of guardians, no church organisation and no human salvage organisation emigrates or assists to emigrate young people of either sex who cannot pass a severe medical examination and be declared mentally and physically sound. This demands serious thought; for the puny, the weak and the unfit are ineligible; our colonies will have none of them, and perhaps our colonies are wise, so the unfit remain at home to be ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

... left in Quebec, which was well provisioned for the winter. The women, children, and men unfit to bear arms numbered three thousand. The 'exempts' amounted to a hundred and eighty. As there was a growing suspicion about many of these last, Carleton paraded them for medical examination at the beginning of March, when, a good deal more than half were found quite fit for duty. These men had been malingering all winter in order to skulk out of danger; so he treated them with extreme leniency in only putting them on duty ...
— The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton • William Wood



Words linked to "Medical examination" :   checkup, health check, ECG, EKG, electrocardiogram, scrutiny, medical, medical exam, medical checkup, ballistocardiogram, examination, cardiogram



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