Definitions For Medicalization

Noun

MEDICALIZATION. (countable and uncountable, plural MEDICALIZATIONs) The act or process of medicalize, medicalizing. : {{ux, en, The medicalization of neurodiversity is complex; psychiatric nosology attempts to draw appropriate lines according to functional impairment or distress, but the concept of functional impairment sometimes relies on enculturated requirements.}}

Derived terms

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Translations

French: médicalisation, f Galician: medicalización, f German: Medikalisierung, f Polish: medykalizacja, f Portuguese: medicalização, f Spanish: medicalización, f

Alternative forms

medicalisation

Etymology

medical + ization

Anagrams

decimalization

Is Medicalization a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

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Scrabble
28
Words with Friends
32

The word Medicalization is worth 28 points in Scrabble and 32 points in Words with Friends

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