ameliorative vs medical

ameliorative

adj
  • Able to repair or ameliorate. 

  • Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve. 

  • Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation. 

noun
  • A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • That which betters or improves. 

medical

adj
  • Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. 

  • Requiring medical treatment. 

  • Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means. 

  • Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery. 

  • Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. 

  • Pertaining to the state of one's health. 

noun
  • A medical examination. 

How often have the words ameliorative and medical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )