pathologization

English

Noun

pathologization (countable and uncountable, plural pathologizations)

  1. (medicine) The treatment of a health or behaviour condition as if it were a medical condition.
    Hypernym: medicalization
    Hyponym: disease mongering
    Near-synonym: overmedicalization

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