Definition of "medicalized" [medicalized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of medicalize. (verb)

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• "I'm not saying we shouldn't question what doctors want to do and why, to accept passively the upswing in medicalized births."
• "The researchers, led by Brandeis sociologist Peter Conrad, evaluated 12 conditions that had been defined as medicalized by physician organizations, and for which there were current medical spending data."
• "The medical term used to label this (and shortness is indeed 'medicalized') is idiopathic short stature (ISS), or shortness with no known cause."