1964 D. Francis Nerve vi. 64 A brisk nurse told us he was going to the operating theatre within minutes and not to disturb the patient, as he had been given his pre-med.

1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 110 The shaving, the marking-up, the pre-med injections.

1977 Observer 4 Sept. 22/1 You'll get a pre-med, a jab to make you drowsy, at about ten.

1992 Independent 8 Feb. 7/8 For the next 40 minutes I felt a tingling sensation, like being under a pre-med before an anaesthetic.

1918 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 11 Nov. 3/4 They are pre-med. students in their sophomore year at W & J. College.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxxv. 263 I finished my pre-med work in three years and won a scholarship to the American University in Beirut.

2000 T. A. Kessler D-Girl (HBO TV shooting script) 44 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) Christopher. How come your old man didn't pressure you to become a doctor like him? Amy. I was pre-med at Yale my Freshman year.

1927 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 30 Sept. 21/1 The first monthly dinner of the school year was held Thursday evening at the Grand hotel by the Pre-Meds of the university.

1951 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 22 139 The other two cases concern ‘pre-meds’, a term that among the sophisticated on the campus is synonymous with..‘educational peon’, one who is learning only the tools of a trade without aspiring to the finer things in life.

1992 B. D'Amato Beauty i. xi. 87 He'd gotten the best grades any pre-med at Yale had ever gotten, as far as anyone could remember.

1930 Nevada State Jrnl. 7 Mar. 4/2 He took ‘pre-med’ at the latter institution—aiming to be a doctor of medicine.

1937 M. Levin Old Bunch iii. 166 He was finishing his premed, and when he entered medical school he would need every dollar he could earn.

1972 W. P. McGivern Caprifoil (1973) xiii. 212 London told us you did a year of pre-med at Birmingham University.

1991 Premiere Aug. 90/1 Short went to McMaster University, majoring in pre-med.