mismedication

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ medication.

Noun

mismedication (countable and uncountable, plural mismedications)

  1. (medicine) Inappropriate use of medication, or use of a wrong medication.
    • 2010, Professor Richard R Abood, Pharmacy Practice and the Law‎[1]:
      There is ample documentation of overmedication, undermedication, and mismedication of nursing home residents.
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