单词 | pharmacomania |
释义 | † pharmacomanian. Medicine. Obsolete. rare. An addiction to taking or prescribing drugs; a morbid desire for drugs. ΚΠ 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 648/1 Pharmacomania, one who has [sic] a mania for prescribing or for taking medicine. 1869 Lancet 4 Dec. 776/1 Dr. Clapton is of the opinion that the free system of dispensing medicine has given rise to a genuine monomania—or, as he calls it, Pharmacomania. DerivativesΚΠ 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 932/2 Pharmacomaniacus,..pharmacomaniacal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1848 |
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