Medizinischer

Medizinischer is a German adjective meaning "medical" or "relating to medicine." It describes nouns in the medical field, including conditions, devices, professions, and disciplines. It also appears in numerous compound terms, such as medizinischer Bereich (medical area) and medizinische Forschung (medical research).

Grammatically, medizinischer inflects for case, gender, and number. For example, masculine singular with no article: medizinischer Bereich; with definite article: der medizinische Bereich; with indefinite article: ein medizinischer Bereich. Feminine and neuter forms follow the usual patterns: die medizinische Forschung, eine medizinische Forschung; das medizinische Gerät, ein medizinisches Gerät. The plural forms are medizinische Geräte (no article) and die medizinischen Geräte (with definite article).

This adjective is normally written in lowercase in ordinary text; capitalisation occurs mainly when it starts a sentence or when part of a proper noun or official title, such as Medizinischer Dienst. In legal and technical language it helps to distinguish the medical field from non-medical usage.

Etymology: medizinischer derives from Medizin, via the German adjective suffix -isch to form medizinisch, with attributive endings added according to gender, number, and case. The root Medizin itself comes from Latin medicina, via Old High German and Middle High German. The term is widely used in German-speaking medical contexts to describe things pertaining to medicine.