*médaillier, n.m., cabinet of medals.

*médailliste, n.m.f., medalist.

*médaillon, n.m., medallion; locket.

médecin (mé-dsin), n.m., physician, doctor. Faire venir le —; to send for the doctor. Il est abandonné des —s; the doctors have given him up. Docteur médecin; doctor of medicine. Un — d’eau douce; a water-gruel doctor. — chirurgien; general practitioner. — empirique; quack doctor. Le temps est un grand —; time cures all ills or time is the great healer.

médecine (mé-dsi-n), n.f., medicine, physic. Etudiant en —; medical student. — légale; forensic medicine. — noire; black draught.

médeciner (mé-dsi-né), v.a., to physic, to doctor.

se médeciner, v.r., to physic, to doctor one’s self.

médial, -e, adj., (gram.) medial.

médian, -e, adj., (anat.) mesial, middle.

médianoche, n.m., meat-supper (after midnight).