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biomedicalisation

biomedicalisation is the alternative form of biomedicalization.

Meaning of biomedicalization

Noun

biomedicalization (countable and uncountable, plural biomedicalizations)

  1. The act or process of making something biomedical; a shift to a viewpoint based on biomedicine.

Forms of biomedicalisation

pluralbiomedicalisations

Origin of biomedicalisation

From bio- + medicalisation.

Questions about biomedicalisation

What is biomedicalisation the alternative form of?
Biomedicalisation is the alternative form of biomedicalization.

Words near biomedicalisation in the dictionary

  1. biomed
  2. biomedia
  3. biomediator
  4. biomediators
  5. biomedical
  6. biomedicalisation
  7. biomedicalisations
  8. biomedicalization
  9. biomedicalizations
  10. biomedicalize
  11. biomedicalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biomedicalisation (page history and authors); biomedicalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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