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PRONUNCIATION OF MEDICALISE

medicalise  [ˈmɛdɪkəˌlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEDICALISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Medicalise is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb medicalise in English.

WHAT DOES MEDICALISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Medicalization

Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions; by changing social attitudes or economic considerations; or by the development of new medications or treatments. Medicalization is studied from a sociologic perspective in terms of the role and power of professionals, patients, and corporations, and also for its implications for ordinary people whose self-identity and life decisions may depend on the prevailing concepts of health and illness. Once a condition is classified as medical, a medical model of disability tends to be used in place of a social model. Medicalization may also be termed "pathologization" or "disease mongering".

Definition of medicalise in the English dictionary

The definition of medicalise in the dictionary is to treat or view in medical terms.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MEDICALISE

PRESENT

Present
I medicalise
you medicalise
he/she/it medicalises
we medicalise
you medicalise
they medicalise
Present continuous
I am medicalising
you are medicalising
he/she/it is medicalising
we are medicalising
you are medicalising
they are medicalising
Present perfect
I have medicalised
you have medicalised
he/she/it has medicalised
we have medicalised
you have medicalised
they have medicalised
Present perfect continuous
I have been medicalising
you have been medicalising
he/she/it has been medicalising
we have been medicalising
you have been medicalising
they have been medicalising
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I medicalised
you medicalised
he/she/it medicalised
we medicalised
you medicalised
they medicalised
Past continuous
I was medicalising
you were medicalising
he/she/it was medicalising
we were medicalising
you were medicalising
they were medicalising
Past perfect
I had medicalised
you had medicalised
he/she/it had medicalised
we had medicalised
you had medicalised
they had medicalised
Past perfect continuous
I had been medicalising
you had been medicalising
he/she/it had been medicalising
we had been medicalising
you had been medicalising
they had been medicalising
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will medicalise
you will medicalise
he/she/it will medicalise
we will medicalise
you will medicalise
they will medicalise
Future continuous
I will be medicalising
you will be medicalising
he/she/it will be medicalising
we will be medicalising
you will be medicalising
they will be medicalising
Future perfect
I will have medicalised
you will have medicalised
he/she/it will have medicalised
we will have medicalised
you will have medicalised
they will have medicalised
Future perfect continuous
I will have been medicalising
you will have been medicalising
he/she/it will have been medicalising
we will have been medicalising
you will have been medicalising
they will have been medicalising
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would medicalise
you would medicalise
he/she/it would medicalise
we would medicalise
you would medicalise
they would medicalise
Conditional continuous
I would be medicalising
you would be medicalising
he/she/it would be medicalising
we would be medicalising
you would be medicalising
they would be medicalising
Conditional perfect
I would have medicalise
you would have medicalise
he/she/it would have medicalise
we would have medicalise
you would have medicalise
they would have medicalise
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been medicalising
you would have been medicalising
he/she/it would have been medicalising
we would have been medicalising
you would have been medicalising
they would have been medicalising
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you medicalise
we let´s medicalise
you medicalise
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to medicalise
Past participle
medicalised
Present Participle
medicalising
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEDICALISE


alkalise
ˈælkəˌlaɪz
alkalize
ˈælkəˌlaɪz
delocalize
diːˈləʊkəˌlaɪz
devocalize
diːˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz
focalise
ˈfəʊkəˌlaɪz
focalize
ˈfəʊkəˌlaɪz
lexicalise
ˈlɛksɪkəˌlaɪz
localize
ˈləʊkəˌlaɪz
musicalise
ˈmjuːzɪkəˌlaɪz
musicalize
ˈmjuːzɪkəˌlaɪz
nickelize
ˈnɪkəˌlaɪz
politicalize
pəˈlɪtɪkəˌlaɪz
radicalise
ˈrædɪkəˌlaɪz
radicalize
ˈrædɪkəˌlaɪz
subvocalise
sʌbˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz
sulcalize
ˈsʌlkəˌlaɪz
technicalize
ˈteknɪkəˌlaɪz
theatricalize
θɪˈætrɪkəˌlaɪz
tropicalise
ˈtrɒpɪkəˌlaɪz
vocalize
ˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEDICALISE

medical man
medical marker
medical men
medical officer
Medical Officer of Health
medical practitioner
medical profession
medical records
Medical Research Council
medical school
medical social worker
medical specialist registrar
medical student
medical studies
medical technician
medical unit
medical ward
medicalisation
medicalization
medically

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEDICALISE

actualise
banalise
centralise
contextualise
equalise
finalise
generalise
industrialise
institutionalise
legalise
materialise
Molise
mutualise
nationalise
normalise
penalise
realise
scandalise
socialise
totalise
valise

Synonyms and antonyms of medicalise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «medicalise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MEDICALISE

Find out the translation of medicalise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of medicalise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «medicalise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

medicalise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medicalizar
570 millions of speakers

English

medicalise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

medicalise
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

medicalise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

медикализации
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

medicalizar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

medicalise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

médicaliser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perubatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

médicalisé
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

medicalise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

medicalise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Medicalise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

medicalise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

medicalise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वैद्यकीय व्यवसाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

medicalise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

medicalizzare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

medicalise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

медикалізації
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

medicalise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

medicalise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

medicalise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

medicalise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medicalise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of medicalise

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDICALISE»

The term «medicalise» is normally little used and occupies the 132.394 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of medicalise
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEDICALISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «medicalise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «medicalise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about medicalise

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEDICALISE»

Discover the use of medicalise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to medicalise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Allies in Emancipation
de-medicalise. human. services. Human services evolved as part of the welfare state to provide assistance to people across a range of needs. With respect to disability, human services were organised around a medical model in which ...
Patricia O'Brien, Martin Sullivan, 2005
2
Health & Height: Proceedings of the Vth World Congress on ...
... who practises caving is considered one of the best-skilled doctors to treat the medical problems that may arise in these accidents. WHEN. IS. THE. DECISION. TAKEN. TO. MEDICALISE. AN. ACCIDENT? The medical team forms the first link  ...
Ginés Viscor Carrasco, Antoni Ricart de Mesones, Conxita Leal, 2003
3
Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on ...
... (as a bodily sign) is converted into a symptom, but the symptom is converted into a sign of something pathological and of the necessity to medicalise it – possibly via self-medicalisation – an identification which results from a social process.
Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011
4
The Armed Forces Covenant in action? Part 1: Military ...
Professor Wessely: I think in the Armed Forces they try very hard not to over- medicalise. The TRIM system—the trauma risk management programme—in which we played a large part and did the big trial to look at its effectiveness, came out of ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee, 2011
5
Practical Guide to Evidence
In R vDeighton (Richard)45 the Court ofAppeal warned against 'the temptation to medicalise normality'. The defendant was convicted of cheating the public revenue by failing to account for the tax due on a disposal of shares, and for income ...
Christopher Allen, 2008
6
Insiders' French: Beyond the Dictionary
Un pays sous-medicalise est un pays ou les soins medicaux et les moyens de depistage et de prevention sont insuffisants. soutien (m.) Support, as in le devoir de soutien alimentaire, the duty to provide, or share in providing, basic support to  ...
Eleanor Levieux, Michel Levieux, 1999
7
Testing Times: The Uses and Abuses of Assessment
Medicalise, 6. Biologise, 7. Geneticise, 8. Normalise, 9. Bureaucratise, 10. Reclaim our identity (p. 10). To provide a flavour of how these engines work, I use his example of obesity – the incidence of which has risen dramatically in the last two ...
Gordon Stobart, 2008
8
Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age
'Postpartum depression affects 400,000 mothers per year in the USA', argues Wolf.71 Recent attempts to medicalise female behaviour - premenstrual syndrome, battered women's syndrome, new mother's syndrome - are now rarely  ...
Frank Furedi, 2004
9
ABC of Conflict and Disaster
That there is a psychological cost cannot be doubted, but it may be a Western conceit to medicalise such misery and distress. Efforts can be made to restore mental hospitals, communities, or institutions, but they will rarely be seen as a priority.
Anthony D. Redmond, Peter F. Mahoney, James M. Ryan, 2009
10
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
If the identification and treatment of trauma is a social practice then a series of questions arises. We need to ask how we have come to specify traumatic memory as distinct and then to medicalise and individualise it. And more important, what ...
Jenny Edkins, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEDICALISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term medicalise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Pro-life activist Bernie Smyth considers politics career
"They want to medicalise a crime by offering the abortion pill illegally. But even in the UK, where abortion is available on demand to a certain ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Dealing with workplace bullying: the occupational health nurse's role
One must be careful not to inappropriately “medicalise” interpersonal relationship issues and allegations of bullying at work. The reality is that ... «PersonnelToday.com, Jul 15»
3
How being a nation of pill poppers is making us ill
Last June, leading doctors accused NICE of trying to medicalise 'five million healthy individuals', pointing out that the supporting evidence had ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
4
New standard to improve the care of people with personality disorders
Care for people with the disorder can also vary, with a tendency to medicalise the conditions, though no drugs are proved to be effective. «NICE, Jun 15»
5
Disease definitions linked to pharmaceutical companies
For depression, changes make it easier to diagnose someone who recently lost a loved one – a change critics argue might medicalise people ... «The Saturday Paper, Jun 15»
6
Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
Back in 1921, a leading mouthwash manufacturer introduced the term “halitosis” in a bid to medicalise bad breath, thus fuelling demand for its ... «The Australian Women's Weekly, Jun 15»
7
New drug hailed "Viagra for women"
Is it helpful to medicalise low sexual desire among women when fluctuations in sexual desire over the life cycle, and in response to life events, ... «HealthCanal.com, Jun 15»
8
Flibanserin: Helping Female Sexual Disorders Or Just A New …
Is it helpful to medicalise low sexual desire among women when fluctuations in sexual desire over the life cycle, and in response to life events, ... «Science 2.0, Jun 15»
9
Hearing voices or having had hallucinations doesn't mean mental …
“Things are more complex.” Psychiatrists must not “rush to treatment” on the basis of single symptoms, and should not medicalise harmless ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
10
Concerns remain for 'Viagra for women' twice rejected by FDA
But critics argue that drug development efforts like Sprout's medicalise women's sexual problems, which are often related to stress, relationship ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Medicalise [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/medicalise>. Apr 2024 ».
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