contraindication

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Italic *-teros

Proto-Italic *komterosder.

Proto-Italic *komterād

Latin contrābor.

English contra-

English indication

English contraindication

From contra- + indication.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒntɹə.ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

contraindication (plural contraindications)

1. (medicine) A factor or symptom which makes a certain treatment inadvisable, generally or individually.

Translations

factor or symptom

• Arabic: مُضَادّ اِسْتِطْبَاب m (muḍādd istiṭbāb)
• Azerbaijani: əks-göstəriş
• Belarusian: проціпаказа́нне n (procipakazánnje)
• Bulgarian: противопоказание n (protivopokazanie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁忌症 (jìnjìzhèng)

• Czech: kontraindikace (cs) f
• Dutch: tegenindicatie f
• Finnish: vasta-aihe (fi), käytön este
• French: contre-indication (fr) f, contrindication (fr) f (1990 spelling)
• Galician: contraindicación (gl) f
• Georgian: უკუჩვენება (uḳučveneba)
• German: Gegenanzeige (de) f, Kontraindikation (de) f
• Greek: αντένδειξη (el) (anténdeixi)
• Ido: kontreindiko (io)
• Italian: controindicazione (it)
• Polish: przeciwwskazanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: contraindicação (pt) f
• Russian: противопоказа́ние (ru) n (protivopokazánije)
• Spanish: contraindicación (es) f
• Turkish: kontrendikasyon
• Ukrainian: протипоказа́ння n (protypokazánnja)