biomedical

See also: biomédical

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ medical.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪəʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌbɑɪəʉˈmedɪk(ə)l/, /ˌbɑɪɐʉˈmedɪk(ə)l/

Adjective

biomedical (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
   • 2006, Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice, page 253:

     The research problem was biomedical in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with biomedical, psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our biomedical colleagues felt that [...]

   • 2007, Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US, page 28:

     Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.

   • 2011, Gosia M. Brykczyńska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People, page 208:

     Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.

   • 2025 March 31, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, “Sunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospective”, in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras‎:

     Even outside openSNP, the largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma.

Derived terms

• biomed
• biomedicalization
• biomedicalize
• biomedically
• nanobiomedical
• nonbiomedical

Translations

pertaining to biomedicine

Armenian: կենսաբժշկական (kensabžškakan) Catalan: biomèdic Czech: biomedicínský Danish: biomedicinsk (da) Dutch: biomedisch (nl) French: biomédical (fr) m German: biomedizinisch Greek: βιοϊατρικός (el) m (vioïatrikós) Indonesian: biomedis Persian: زیست‌پزشکی (zist-pezeški) Polish: biomedyczny (pl) Portuguese: biomédico (pt) m, biomédica f Russian: биомедици́нский (ru) (biomedicínskij) Swedish: biomedicinsk

Noun

biomedical (plural biomedicals)

1. A product of the biomedicine industry.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French biomédical.

Adjective

biomedical m or n (feminine singular biomedicală, masculine plural biomedicali, feminine/neuter plural biomedicale)

1. biomedical

Declension

Declension of biomedical

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	biomedical		biomedicală		biomedicali	biomedicale
	definite	biomedicalul		biomedicala		biomedicalii	biomedicalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	biomedical		biomedicale		biomedicali	biomedicale
	definite	biomedicalului		biomedicalei		biomedicalilor	biomedicalelor