medizinischen

Medizinischen is the inflected form of the German adjective medizinisch, meaning medical or relating to medicine. It is used to describe nouns in medical contexts, such as medicine, healthcare, and medical technology. Like other German adjectives, medizinisch changes its ending according to gender, number, and case, producing forms such as medizinische, medizinischer, and medizinischen.

In everyday usage, medizinisch appears in phrases that denote medical fields, equipment, or concepts. Examples include die medizinischen Geräte (the medical devices), mit medizinischen Geräten (with medical devices), des medizinischen Geräts (of the medical device), eine medizinische Behandlung (a medical treatment), and medizinische Forschung (medical research). The plural form die medizinischen Studien (the medical studies) shows the -en ending common in plural after definite articles, while medizinische Geräte can stand without an article in the plural (strong declension).

Etymology and related terms: medizinisch is formed from Medizin (medicine) with the suffix -isch, mirroring related German adjectives such as hygienisch or academically equivalent English medical. The noun Medizin derives from Latin medicina, via historical Germanic and Romance-language borrowings.

Capitalization and nominalization: In standard prose, medizinisch is written in lowercase as an ordinary adjective. When used as a noun, it can be nominalized and capitalized as Das Medizinische to refer to the medical field, department, or domain in a concise, sometimes institutional sense.