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Snake medicine symbol

⚕️ Medical symbol

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⚕️ Emoji meaning

First aid, healing, pharmacy, hospital, medicine, and emergency.

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⚕️ Meaning

The staff of Asclepius or snake is a symbol of medicine and healing. It alerts you to health matters. A visit to the hospital is pending, someone is recovering or working in the medical field.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Medical symbol

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DNA vs medical symbol; both represent medicine, genetics, or biomedical science.

Medical symbol

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Medical symbol vs biohazard; both appear in contexts about health, disease, and hospitals.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Medical symbol” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 4.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ medical + symbol

Keywords removed

- medical symbol

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ medical symbol

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ staff + medicine + aesculapius

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