Etymology

biomedical

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to biomedicine. Full definition →

English medical ← French médica ← Medieval Latin medicāli
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
  2. Ancient Greekβῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
  3. Ancient Greekβῐο- (bĭo-)
  4. Englishbio-
  5. Latinmedeor
  6. Latinmedicus
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  9. Medieval Latinmedicāli
  10. Frenchmédica
  11. Englishmedical
  12. English todaybiomedical

From bio- + medical.

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