to medicalize
1medicalize — (Amer.) v. identify or classify a condition or behavior as being a sickness or a disorder that requires medical treatment or intervention (also medicalise) …
2medicalize — [med′i kəl īz΄] vt. medicalized, medicalizing to use medical methods or concepts in dealing with (nonmedical problems, conditions, etc.) medicalization n …
3Medicalize — To identify a condition as a disorder requiring medical treatment. The term medicalize is usually used in a pejorative or disparaging sense. For example, The recommendation that all women take folic acid during the childbearing years tends, some… …
4medicalize — transitive verb ( ized; izing) Date: 1970 to view or treat as a medical concern, problem, or disorder < those who seek to dispose of social problems by medicalizing them Liam Hudson > • medicalization noun …
5medicalize — medicalization, n. /med i keuh luyz /, v.t., medicalized, medicalizing. to handle or accept as deserving of or appropriate for medical treatment. Also, esp. Brit., medicalise. [MEDICAL + IZE] * * * …
6medicalize — verb To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine. The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education …
7medicalize — or medicalise verb treat as a medical problem, especially without justification. Derivatives medicalization noun …
8medicalize — med·i·cal·ize …
9medicalize — …
10medicalized — medicalize (Amer.) v. identify or classify a condition or behavior as being a sickness or a disorder that requires medical treatment or intervention (also medicalise) …
