medicalizedadj.
/ˈmɛdᵻkl̩ʌɪzd/, /ˈmɛdᵻkəlʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəkəˌlaɪzd/ That has undergone medicalization.
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medicalized1970
1970 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 24 Sept. 709/1 (heading) ‘Medicalized’ sex.
1986 A. Oakley in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 127 In the twentieth century, motherhood has also become a medicalized domain.
1997 Independent 23 Apr. (Suppl.) 2/2 Nowadays some brave transsexuals..have rejected the medicalised script that has been written out for them, insisting that they are neither one thing or the other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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