paramedical

1. 1.

   a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment

   Synonymsparamedic

   Broaderparaprofessional

1. 1.

   of or denoting a person who is trained to assist physicians and nurses in their activities

   “ambulance drivers are paramedical to give emergency medical aid”

   “ambulance drivers are paramedical personnel”

Other forms of paramedical

plural

paramedicals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paramedical

What does paramedical mean?

paramedical means "a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paramedical?

paramedical has 5 syllables: pa-ra-me-di-cal. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for paramedical?

Close synonyms include paramedic. 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 paramedical a common word?

paramedical 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.