• Biomedical

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ËŒbaɪəʊˈmedɪkl/
    • US IPA: /ËŒbaɪoʊˈmedɪkl/

    Origin

    From - + medical.

    Full definition of biomedical

    Adjective

    biomedical

    1. Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
      • 2006, Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice, page 253:The research problem was biomedical in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with biomedical, psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our biomedical colleagues felt that ...
      • 2007, Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US, page 28:Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.
      • 2011, Gosia M. BrykczyÅ„ska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People, page 208:Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.

    Noun

    biomedical

    (plural biomedicals)
    1. A product of the biomedicine industry.
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