overmedicalize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
over- + medicalize
Verb[edit]
overmedicalize (third-person singular simple present overmedicalizes, present participle overmedicalizing, simple past and past participle overmedicalized)
- (transitive) To medicalize too much.
- 2007 January 9, “Letters”, in New York Times[1]:
- To be sure, we overmedicalize at times.