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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paramedical

"related to medicine in an auxiliary capacity," 1908, from para- (1) + medical.

Wiktionary
paramedical

a. 1 Of or relating to the provision of emergency medical treatment. 2 Of or relating to a paramedic.

WordNet
paramedical
  1. adj. of or denoting a person who supplements physicians and nurses in their activities; "ambulance drivers are paramedical personnel"

  2. n. a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment [syn: paramedic]

Usage examples of "paramedical".

These trained doctors, nurses, and paramedical technicians, and engaged in continuous research on each planet into local diseases, local materia medica, parasitology, epidemiology, toxicology, and a variety of other topics in public health.

Four and a half hours later they had hammered out a plan to contain the Horror It would require a huge increase in paramedical personnel It would require a massive rearrangement of the facilities at each of the international airports It would require the cooperation of the media.