Medical Dictionary

comparative

adj com·par·a·tive \kəm-ˈpar-ət-iv\

Medical Definition of COMPARATIVE

:  characterized by the systematic comparison of phenomena and especially of likenesses and dissimilarities <comparative anatomy> <the study of blood types by comparative analysis>
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