Meditsiinilise

Meditsiinilise is an Estonian word form, the genitive singular of the adjective meditsiiniline, meaning medical or pertaining to medicine. In Estonian, adjectives decline for case and number, so meditsiinilise is used when the noun it modifies is in the genitive singular. The base headword is meditsiiniline; other forms include meditsiiniline (nominative singular), meditsiinilised (nominative plural), and meditsiinilist (partitive singular), among others.

The term is common in medical, scientific, and legal language to indicate a relationship to medicine or the medical field. It can describe institutions, concepts, or objects, such as meditsiinilise seaduse eelnõu (a draft of the medical law) or meditsiinilise uuringu tulemused (the results of a medical study). Meditsiinilise is not a separate lexical entry but a grammatical form of meditsiiniline used in contexts requiring the genitive case.

Etymology: meditsiiniline is formed from the noun meditsiin (medicine) with the Estonian adjective suffix -iline, a productive pattern for creating adjectives. The root meditsiin reflects borrowing from European languages, related to Latin medicina or German Medizin, and has become standard in Estonian medical and academic vocabulary.

See also: meditsiin, meditsiiniline (as a category of medical-related terminology).