Examination of figures during a meal (7)
I believe the answer is:
medical
'examination' is the definition.
(I know that medical is a type of examination)
'figures during a meal' is the wordplay.
'figures' becomes 'dic' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'during' indicates putting letters inside.
'dic' going within 'meal' is 'MEDICAL'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for medical that I've seen before include "Health check-up" , "Declaim (anag) -- health check" , "Of the science dealing with treatment of disease" , "Relating to doctoring" , "Examination of physical health" .)