MEDICAL SCHOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical school mean? 

• MEDICAL SCHOOL (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL SCHOOL has 1 sense:

1. a graduate school offering study leading to a medical degree

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL SCHOOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL SCHOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graduate school offering study leading to a medical degree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

medical school; school of medicine

Hypernyms ("medical school" is a kind of...):

grad school; graduate school (a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree)

 Context examples 

Now I am aware that he is not only one of the heads of the medical school of the university, but a thinker of European reputation in more than one branch of science.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study conducted by the University of Exeter's medical school into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We wanted to find out how these superbugs are spread — and whether there is a cross-over from the food chain to humans said lead author Professor David Livermore of the University of East Anglia's medical school.

(Wash your hands or else spread superbug E. coli, say scientists, Wikinews)