noun
family of doctors; medical family
Dated term for a family whose profession is medicine, often over generations.
彼は医家の生まれで、祖父も父も医者だった。
He was born into a family of doctors; both his grandfather and father were physicians.
noun
Dated term for a medical doctor; modern Japanese prefers 医者 or 医師.
その医家は往診に馬車を使っていた。
That doctor used a horse-drawn carriage for house calls.