medis

Medis is a term used in several languages, most notably Indonesian and Malay, to refer to medicine, medical care, and the broader medical field. In everyday speech it functions both as an adjective describing health-related things and as a noun within compound expressions. Examples include tenaga medis (medical personnel), fasilitas medis (medical facilities), and alat medis (medical equipment). As an adjective, it can modify a wide range of terms, such as layanan medis (medical services) or ilmu medis (medical science).

Etymology and scope: The form medis comes from the Latin root medicina through European medical terminology and was adopted into Indonesian and Malay vocabularies during the modern period. It is distinct from dokter (doctor) and obat (medicine) and is used to denote the domain of medicine rather than a single professional title.

Beyond Indonesia and Malaysia, medis may appear in branding or as an acronym in organizational names, although it is not a widely used English term. In multilingual contexts, its meaning is dependent on language and local usage, but it consistently centers on medical or health-related concepts.

See also: medicine, medical science, healthcare, tenaga medis.