Definitions For Polypharmacy

Noun

POLYPHARMACY (uncountable) (medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription. from 18th c.

Derived terms

hyperpolypharmacy

Translations

{{trans-top}} Chinese: : Mandarin: 多重用藥 (duōchóng yòngyào) German: Multimedikation, f, Polypharmazie, f, Polypharmakotherapie, f Icelandic: lyfjaofgjöf, f Japanese: 多剤併用 (たざいへいよう, tazaiheiyō) Latin: polypharmacia, f Spanish: polimedicación, f

Etymology

from poly + pharmacy, after {{uder + en + grc + πολυφάρμακος}}.

Is Polypharmacy a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
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29
Words with Friends
31

The word Polypharmacy is worth 29 points in Scrabble and 31 points in Words with Friends

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