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medicalisation

medicalisation is the alternative spelling of medicalization.

Meaning of medicalization

Noun

medicalization (countable and uncountable, plural medicalizations)

  1. The act or process of medicalizing.
    • Near-synonym: pathologization
    Synonyms:
    pathologization

Forms of medicalisation

pluralmedicalisations

Origin of medicalisation

From medical + -isation.

Words formed from medicalisation

Questions about medicalisation

What is medicalisation the alternative spelling of?
Medicalisation is the alternative spelling of medicalization.

Words near medicalisation in the dictionary

  1. medical tapes
  2. medical tourism
  3. medicaled out
  4. medicalese
  5. medicaling out
  6. medicalisation
  7. medicalisations
  8. medicalise
  9. medicalised
  10. medicalises
  11. medicalising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: medicalisation (page history and authors); medicalization (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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