médicales

Médicales is the feminine plural form of the French adjective médical, used to describe feminine nouns related to medicine or health care. In French, adjectives agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify, so the forms include médical (masculine singular), médicale (feminine singular), médicaux (masculine plural), and médicales (feminine plural).

Usage examples illustrate its meaning: informations médicales (medical information), techniques médicales (medical techniques), recherches médicales (medical research), and sciences médicales (medical sciences). The term is a descriptor rather than a stand-alone concept, and it appears across contexts such as healthcare, education, research, and policy.

The masculine counterpart is médicaux, used with masculine nouns (produits médicaux, appareils médicaux). In academic and institutional language, phrases like sciences médicales or discipline médicale refer to fields within medicine and health sciences, where médicales functions as the appropriate feminine plural agreement.

Originating from the Latin medicus, meaning physician, the adjective médical entered French through historical medical terminology and remains widely used in contemporary French. It is typically written in lowercase unless it starts a sentence or appears in a title. While the term can appear in brand names or proper nouns, its standard usage remains as a grammatical modifier rather than a separate lexical entry.