medicable (medikabl)

[= OF. medicable, me dec able = Sp. medicable = It. medic a bile, Songs of victory and praise, For them who bravely stood unhurt, or bled With medicable wounds. Words worth , Ode, 1815. Medicago (med-i-kā'gō), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), medic a , medic, + term. -ago , as in tu ilago, etc.) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosa and the tribe Trifolieæ ; the clovers. It is characterized by an obtuse keel and a scythe-shaped legume which is more or le spirally curved or twisted. There are about 40 species, natives of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but now naturalized in other parts of the world. They are herbs, or rarely shrubs, with pinnately trifoliate leaves and adnate stipules, and usually small papilionaceous flowers, which are yellow, rarely purple, and grow in axillary racemes or heads, or sometimes almost solitary. The common name of plants of the genus is medic , sometimes snail - clo ver. M. sativa , with purple flowers, is an important fodder plant, cultivated under the names of alfalfa and lucerne (which see). M. lupulin a , the black medic or nonesuch, closely resembles the hop-clovers, and also shares their name, but is distinguished by its black pods. It is of some agricultural value when growing with other herbage. M. maculata , the spotted medic (heart-clover), has a peculiar, spirally coiled prickly pod. These species are all naturalized in the United States. M. arborea is a shrubby species (tree-medic, moon-trefoil) of southern Europe, said to promote the secretion of milk. M. scutellata of the Mediterranean region is also a good forage-plant, resisting drought well. M. falcata is the yellow or sickle podded medic. medical (med'i-kal), a. and n. [ Abbreviated med . Medical department, geography, etc. See the nouns. in the United States navy, having the relative rank of cap Medical director, a medical officer of the highest grade tain. Medical fingert. [L. digit us medic us or medic i nalis.] The third finger: so called because that finger was supposed to have a nerve connecting it with the heart, and therefore to be medically important. At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical fin ger a pretty handsome golden ring. Urquhart , tr. of Rabelais, iii. 17. ( Davies .) Medical inspector, a medical officer of the second grade in the United States navy, having the relative rank of commander.- Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine. See forensic . Medical jurisprudence - or, as it is sometimes called, Forensic, Legal, or State Medicine-may be defined to be IMG:content-0398.png:[blocks in formation] II. n. 1. A student or a practitioner of medicine. [Colloq.] The London medicals were quite as popular as the Edinburgh students. Lancet, No. 3437, p. 96. 2. A small bottle or vial made from gla tubing. The vial-maker cuts the tubes into lengths suitable to make two vials, and on each end of the piece, with the aid of a blowpipe, forms a neck. He then heats the middle of the tube, parts it centrally, and closes the openings at the separated ends, shaping them properly for the bottoms. medically (med'i-kal-i), adv. In a medical manner; for medical purposes; with reference to medicine or medical science.