pre-med (n.)

also premed, 1934, "undergraduate student in preparation for medical school," abbreviation of premedical. From 1941 as "a major in preparation for medical training." As an adjective from 1936.

also from 1934

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premedical (adj.)

also pre-medical, 1881, in reference to study for medical training, from pre- + medical (adj.).

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