premedical

1. 1.

   preparing for the study of medicine

   “premedical students”
2. 2.

   preceding and preparing for the study of medicine

   “premedical courses”

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Questions about premedical

What does premedical mean?

premedical means "preparing for the study of medicine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in premedical?

premedical has 4 syllables: pre-me-di-cal. The stress falls on "me".

Is premedical a common word?

premedical 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.