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medicalization

noun

Etymology

From medical + -ization.

  1. derived from medicus
  2. derived from medicālis
  3. borrowed from médical
  4. suffixed as medicalization — “medical + ization”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of medicalizing.

    • Near-synonym: pathologization
    • Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People [title]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for medicalization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA