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biomedicalization

biomedicalization noun: the act or process of making something biomedical; a shift to a viewpoint based on biomedicine.

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 biomedicalization

pluralbiomedicalizations

Origin of biomedicalization

From biomedical + -ization.

Questions about biomedicalization

What does biomedicalization mean?
Biomedicalization means the act or process of making something biomedical; a shift to a viewpoint based on biomedicine.
What part of speech is biomedicalization?
Biomedicalization is a noun.
What is the plural of biomedicalization?
The plural of biomedicalization is biomedicalizations.

Words near biomedicalization in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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