biomedical

From bio- + medical.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪəʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛdɪk(ə)l/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌbɑɪəʉˈmedɪk(ə)l/, /ˌbɑɪɐʉˈmedɪk(ə)l/

biomedical (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
   • 2006, Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, Mustafa H. M. Babiker (editors), African anthropologies: history, critique, and practice, page 253:

     The research problem was biomedical in nature but the research approach adopted was multidisciplinary, with biomedical, psychological and anthropological aspects. Despite joint efforts, our biomedical colleagues felt that [...]

   • 2007, Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US, page 28:

     Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.

   • 2011, Gosia M. Brykczyńska, Joan Simons, Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and Young People, page 208:

     Clearly, some research undertaken by children's nurses is biomedical in nature although a significant amount of contemporary research is qualitative focusing on children's experiences and evaluating services.

   • 2025 March 31, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, “Sunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospective”, in Bastian Greshake Tzovaras‎^[1]:

     Even outside openSNP, the largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma.

biomedical (plural biomedicals)

1. A product of the biomedicine industry.

Borrowed from French biomédical.

biomedical m or n (feminine singular biomedicală, masculine plural biomedicali, feminine/neuter plural biomedicale)

1. biomedical