topical

adjective

1. pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
2. pertaining to the subject of a discourse, composition, or the like.
3. of a place; local.
4. Medicine/Medical. of, relating to, or applied externally to a particular part of the body; local: a topical anesthetic.

noun

5. Philately. any of a collection of different stamps treating the same subject.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or constituting current affairs
2. relating to a particular place; local
3. of or relating to a topic or topics
4. (of a drug, ointment, etc) for application to the body surface; local

adj.

1580s, from topic + -al (1). Medical sense is from c.1600. Meaning “of or pertaining to topics of the day” is from 1873.

adj.

1. Of or applied to a definite or localized area of the body.