mèdiques
Mèdiques is a Catalan feminine plural word used both as an adjective meaning "medical" when modifying a feminine plural noun and as a noun referring to female physicians or medical practitioners. It derives from Latin medicus through the Romance evolution that produced Catalan mèdic (masculine) and the feminine form mèdica; the plural forms are mèdics and mèdiques respectively. The grave accent on è marks an open e vowel and indicates the standard Catalan orthography and pronunciation.
As an adjective, mèdiques appears in phrases such as "instal·lacions mèdiques" (medical facilities) when the noun
The term is related to other Catalan medical vocabulary such as medicina (medicine) and salut (health). Its