medical examination

Questions about medical examination

What does medical examination mean?

medical examination means "a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person".

What is another word for medical examination?

Close synonyms include checkup, medical checkup, medical exam, medical, health check. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medical examination a common word?

medical examination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.