"medicalization" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: medicalizations [plural]
Etymology: medical + -ization Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|medical|ization}} medical + -ization Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} medicalization (countable and uncountable, plural medicalizations)
  1. The act or process of medicalizing. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: medicalisation Derived forms: antimedicalization, biomedicalization, demedicalization, overmedicalization, paramedicalization Translations (the act or process of medicalizing): médicalisation [feminine] (French), medicalización [feminine] (Galician), Medikalisierung [feminine] (German), medykalizacja [feminine] (Polish), medicalização [feminine] (Portuguese), medicalización [feminine] (Spanish)

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