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medicalized

medicalized is the simple past and past participle of medicalize.

Meaning of medicalize

Verb

medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

  1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
    • The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies

Words formed from medicalized

Questions about medicalized

What is medicalized the simple past and past participle of?
Medicalized is the simple past and past participle of medicalize.

Words near medicalized in the dictionary

  1. medicalism
  2. medicalizable
  3. medicalization
  4. medicalizations
  5. medicalize
  6. medicalized
  7. medicalizes
  8. medicalizing
  9. medicalled out
  10. medicalling out
  11. medically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medicalized (page history and authors); medicalize (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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