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biomedicalize

biomedicalize verb: to make something a biomedical issue.

Verb

biomedicalize (third-person singular simple present biomedicalizes, present participle biomedicalizing, simple past and past participle biomedicalized)

  1. (transitive) To make something a biomedical issue.

Forms of biomedicalize

third-person singular presentbiomedicalizes
present participlebiomedicalizing
past participlebiomedicalized
pastbiomedicalized

Origin of biomedicalize

From biomedical + -ize.

Questions about biomedicalize

What does biomedicalize mean?
Biomedicalize means to make something a biomedical issue.
What part of speech is biomedicalize?
Biomedicalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of biomedicalize?
The past tense of biomedicalize is biomedicalized.

Words near biomedicalize in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biomedicalize (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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