Medic
noun
A person who gives medical help, especially in the armed forces or in a sports team.
The medic quickly bandaged the soldier's wound.
Often appears as...
- army medic
- combat medic
noun
A medical student or doctor.
He is studying to be a medic at Harvard Medical School.
Often appears as...
- trainee medic
- student medic
Usage tips
Informal
Academic
noun
A kind of plant with clover-like leaves which fixes nitrogen in the soil.
This field has a good crop of medics.
Often appears as...
- field of medics
- sowing medic
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who gives medical help, especially in the armed forces or in a sports team.
The medic quickly bandaged the soldier's wound.
Often appears as...
- army medic
- combat medic
noun
A medical student or doctor.
He is studying to be a medic at Harvard Medical School.
Often appears as...
- trainee medic
- student medic
Usage tips
Informal
Academic
noun
A kind of plant with clover-like leaves which fixes nitrogen in the soil.
This field has a good crop of medics.
Often appears as...
- field of medics
- sowing medic
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Military Usage
Often used in a military context to describe medical personnel on the battlefield.
The medic rushed to aid injured troops after the skirmish.
Pro Tip 2/3Sports Context
Refers to a person providing medical support for sports teams or athletes.
During the match, the team medic attended to a player's twisted ankle.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a 'Doctor'
'Medic' implies practical medical aid; may not necessarily be a qualified doctor.
The medic administered first aid until the doctor arrived.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Usage
Often used in a military context to describe medical personnel on the battlefield.
The medic rushed to aid injured troops after the skirmish.
Pro Tip 2/3Sports Context
Refers to a person providing medical support for sports teams or athletes.
During the match, the team medic attended to a player's twisted ankle.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a 'Doctor'
'Medic' implies practical medical aid; may not necessarily be a qualified doctor.
The medic administered first aid until the doctor arrived.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Usage
Often used in a military context to describe medical personnel on the battlefield.
The medic rushed to aid injured troops after the skirmish.
Pro Tip 2/3Sports Context
Refers to a person providing medical support for sports teams or athletes.
During the match, the team medic attended to a player's twisted ankle.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a 'Doctor'
'Medic' implies practical medical aid; may not necessarily be a qualified doctor.
The medic administered first aid until the doctor arrived.
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Video examples
The Sea Turtles of...
really interesting about these hatchlings is that a nest typically incubates for up to around fifty five days but this nest in particular is eighty four days old. That's a very long time and that's because this nest had been washed by water, it was inundated by a medic aid. And you're going to release them later on today, aren't you? Yes, we'll be releasing them shortly.
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Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
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Sniper Keeps His Cool PIPE...
Martin assembles the safety team and reviews the dangers of firing live rounds in the lab shooting guns indoors is not exactly a safe endeavor eisenerz everybody needs to have eye protection on if there's a safety violation or if there's a an emergency where there's an injury I'll call head in the medic
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How do blood transfusions...
medics safely stored and preserved liters of blood, wheeling it directly onto the battlefield to transfuse wounded soldiers. After the war, this crude portable box would become the inspiration for the modern-day blood bank, a fixture of hospitals around the world.
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Selling Survival:...
at tactical medic has some medical tools that could be the difference between life or death these are all military products what I like to sell the military products in civilian market is they're made for terrified 19 year olds that only have a limited amount of
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How the heart actually...
That's when its functions become apparent as medics get to observe the motion of the heart's valves. So, let's imagine you're a medic for a day. What you'll need to get started is a whole fresh heart, like one from a sheep or pig. Immerse this heart in water
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Wes Moore: How to talk...
and the reason it's not landing safely is because it's not responding to the commands that her legs are giving because her legs were blown off. She barely survives. Medics come and they save her life, but then as she's doing her recuperation back at home,
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Why women should tell...
And we do finally give artists these incredible, prominent spaces in the world, because they are our storytellers. Now, why should it matter to you if you're not an artist? Supposing you're an accountant or an entrepreneur or a medic
Video examples
Endangered Animal Rescue...
tirelessly to help many endangered species they've come to visit one while my sensor that is doing Justin and medics imagine they've had a couple of new baby elephants form very recently and so
Video examples
Bleeding and Disoriented...
help here but sit down sitting right here bud medics arrived on scene but it looks like it's coming from so he did this y'all wrapped it and he went to sleep
Video examples
The Sea Turtles of...
really interesting about these hatchlings is that a nest typically incubates for up to around fifty five days but this nest in particular is eighty four days old. That's a very long time and that's because this nest had been washed by water, it was inundated by a medic aid. And you're going to release them later on today, aren't you? Yes, we'll be releasing them shortly.
Video examples
Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
Video examples
Sniper Keeps His Cool PIPE...
Martin assembles the safety team and reviews the dangers of firing live rounds in the lab shooting guns indoors is not exactly a safe endeavor eisenerz everybody needs to have eye protection on if there's a safety violation or if there's a an emergency where there's an injury I'll call head in the medic
Video examples
How do blood transfusions...
medics safely stored and preserved liters of blood, wheeling it directly onto the battlefield to transfuse wounded soldiers. After the war, this crude portable box would become the inspiration for the modern-day blood bank, a fixture of hospitals around the world.
Video examples
Selling Survival:...
at tactical medic has some medical tools that could be the difference between life or death these are all military products what I like to sell the military products in civilian market is they're made for terrified 19 year olds that only have a limited amount of
Video examples
How the heart actually...
That's when its functions become apparent as medics get to observe the motion of the heart's valves. So, let's imagine you're a medic for a day. What you'll need to get started is a whole fresh heart, like one from a sheep or pig. Immerse this heart in water
Video examples
Wes Moore: How to talk...
and the reason it's not landing safely is because it's not responding to the commands that her legs are giving because her legs were blown off. She barely survives. Medics come and they save her life, but then as she's doing her recuperation back at home,
Video examples
Why women should tell...
And we do finally give artists these incredible, prominent spaces in the world, because they are our storytellers. Now, why should it matter to you if you're not an artist? Supposing you're an accountant or an entrepreneur or a medic
Video examples
Endangered Animal Rescue...
tirelessly to help many endangered species they've come to visit one while my sensor that is doing Justin and medics imagine they've had a couple of new baby elephants form very recently and so
Video examples
Bleeding and Disoriented...
help here but sit down sitting right here bud medics arrived on scene but it looks like it's coming from so he did this y'all wrapped it and he went to sleep
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
J. K. Simmons
American Actor
On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.
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Giles Duley
British Photographer
To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.
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James McCloughan
American Soldier
I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and into the safety of the perimeter.
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Eli Wallach
American Actor
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
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Tim Holden
American Politician
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
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Bobby Seale
American Activist
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
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Antony Beevor
British Historian
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
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Sajid Javid
British Politician
Let trusts get on and recruit internationally and stopping blocking medics from coming here to care for our sick.
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James McCloughan
American Soldier
As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
Quote examples
J. K. Simmons
American Actor
On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.
Quote examples
Giles Duley
British Photographer
To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.
Quote examples
James McCloughan
American Soldier
I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and into the safety of the perimeter.
Quote examples
Eli Wallach
American Actor
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
Quote examples
Tim Holden
American Politician
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
Quote examples
Bobby Seale
American Activist
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
Quote examples
Antony Beevor
British Historian
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
Quote examples
Sajid Javid
British Politician
Let trusts get on and recruit internationally and stopping blocking medics from coming here to care for our sick.
Quote examples
James McCloughan
American Soldier
As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
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