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medicalize

[ med-i-kuh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

medicalized, medicalizing.
  1. to handle or accept as deserving of or appropriate for medical treatment.


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  • i···tDz noun
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Example Sentences

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While it’s trendy to either feverishly promote Ozempic, Wegovy or their many knock-off versions, or to dump on the whole idea, dismissing it as the product of a sick and bigoted society and corporations eager to medicalize anything they can, there’s far more to it than that.

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But she also sees a temptation among public officials to villainize or medicalize loneliness— and to tout simplistic “solutions” to a complex and natural part of the human experience.

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I'd really love to see us cutting down on our need to medicalize and biologize every human experience.

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Or does labeling people prediabetic merely “medicalize” a normal part of aging, creating needless anxiety for those already coping with multiple health problems?

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In the meantime, however, let’s not medicalize everyday stress.

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