"disease mongering" meaning in English

See disease mongering in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} disease mongering (uncountable)
  1. (derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments. Wikipedia link: disease mongering Tags: derogatory, uncountable Related terms: medicalize
    Sense id: en-disease_mongering-en-noun-AFKxTxtX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for disease mongering meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "disease mongering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments."
      ],
      "id": "en-disease_mongering-en-noun-AFKxTxtX",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "widen",
          "widen"
        ],
        [
          "diagnostic",
          "diagnostic"
        ],
        [
          "illness",
          "illness"
        ],
        [
          "market",
          "market"
        ],
        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "medicalize"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "disease mongering"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disease mongering"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "disease mongering (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "medicalize"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "widen",
          "widen"
        ],
        [
          "diagnostic",
          "diagnostic"
        ],
        [
          "illness",
          "illness"
        ],
        [
          "market",
          "market"
        ],
        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "disease mongering"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "disease mongering"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.