medicalize

[ med-i-kuh-lahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, med·i·cal·ized, med·i·cal·iz·ing.

He gets a couple of different diagnoses and the condition is medicalized.

Then she shifts to the dangers of trying to medicalize racism, which is not a medical phenomenon.

I am often dismayed at the many ways in which we medicalize a natural phenomenon that affects us all—aging.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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