Med vs Ked - What's the difference?
med | ked |
(informal) Medical.
(informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
(UK, dialect) may; might
* Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the (sheep ked), Melophagus ovinus .
* 1839 , Rev. Dr Singer, Flies and other insects hurtful to live stock, &c.'', ''Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ,
* 2006 , Philip R. Scott, Sheep Medicine ,
* 2007 , Carrie Gleason, The Biography of Wool ,
As an abbreviation med
is (degree ) master of education.As an initialism ked is
(emergency medicine) kendrick extrication device.med
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from medical.Adjective
(-)- I'm in med school.
Noun
(en noun)- He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.
Anagrams
* ----ked
English
(Melophagus ovinus) (Hippoboscidae)Alternative forms
* kade (specifically Melophagus ovinus)Noun
(en noun)page 132,
- Pouring with tobacco liquor is fatal to these insects, and also to the ked , Hippobosca ovina'', and to the tick, ''Acarus reduvius , if it fairly reach them.
page 263,
- The common differential diagnoses include cutaneous myiasis, sheep scab and lice; however, keds' are readily visible to the naked eye.Adult ' keds are 4-6 mm long, dark red and readily visible on the neck and forelimbs.
page 12,
- They watch the sheep for signs of insects or pests, such as sheep keds and sheep lice, that can irritate the sheep causing them to scratch their fleece against fences or troughs and damage or tear the wool.