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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{suffix|en|medical|ize}}
From {{suffix|en|medical|ize}}.


===Verb===
===Verb===
{{en-verb}}
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# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[medical]]; to convert or reduce to a branch of [[medicine]].
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[medical]]; to convert or reduce to a branch of [[medicine]]; especially, to {{l|en|pathologize}}.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1996|author=Dion Farquhar|title=The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies|passage=The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned '''medicalized''' pornography into education {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1996|author=Dion Farquhar|title=The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies|passage=The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned '''medicalized''' pornography into education {{...}}}}
#* '''1999''', Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, ''Midwifery and Childbirth''
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=Judith Rooks; Charles S Mahan|title=Midwifery and Childbirth
#*: Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly '''medicalized''' approach to the care of women during pregnancy {{...}}
|passage=Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly '''medicalized''' approach to the care of women during pregnancy {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Leonore Tiefer|title=Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays|passage={{...}} sexual problems would have to be repackaged and '''medicalized'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Leonore Tiefer|title=Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays|passage={{...}} sexual problems would have to be repackaged and '''medicalized'''.}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|medicalization}}


====Translations====
====Translations====
{{trans-top|to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize}}
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|lääketieteellistää}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|lääketieteellistää}}
* German: {{t|de|medikalisieren}}
* German: {{t|de|medikalisieren}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|medikalizál}}
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* Polish: {{t-needed|pl}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[czynić]] [[medyczny]]m}}
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Latest revision as of 23:15, 18 August 2024

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Etymology

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From medical +‎ -ize.

Verb

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medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

  1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
    • 1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies:
      The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]
    • 1999, Judith Rooks, Charles S Mahan, Midwifery and Childbirth:
      Early in this century American obstetrics became committed to a path that has led to a highly medicalized approach to the care of women during pregnancy […]
    • 2004, Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays:
      […] sexual problems would have to be repackaged and medicalized.
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