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medical certificate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If a member of staff is sick for more than 7 days they must provide a medical certificate.
▪ If you're sick you have to get a medical certificate.
▪ Pilots over age 40 must renew the medical certificate required as a condition of licensing every two years.
▪ Remember, if you are sick for a second week, we shall require a medical certificate.
▪ She even had a medical certificate to prove she was clean.
▪ Where the witness is ill it is advisable to send a medical certificate with the notice itself.
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medical certificate

n. A statement from a physician or other health care provider that attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient.

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Medical certificate

A medical certificate (sometimes referred to as a doctor's certificate) is a statement from a physician or other health care provider that attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient. It can serve as a "sick note" (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition.

An aegrotat or sick note is a type of medical certificate excusing a student's absence from school for reasons of illness.

Usage examples of "medical certificate".

As a result of his injuries, Constantine lost his merchant navy medical certificate and that career too.

He will have to obtain a medical certificate regarding the cause of death.

It points also to an orthodox burial with proper accompaniment of medical certificate and official sanc- tion.

Kugler got a medical certificate to excuse him from the work detail.

That medical certificate of mine isn't the put-up job you all think it was.

That medical certificate of mine isn't the putup job you all think it was.

Medication has to be explained to the FAA unless it is some innocuous over-the-counter remedy, and the next time she goes to the flight surgeon to renew her medical certificate, she will have to list Dostinex.