vt, -ized  -iz*ing  :  to treat, view, or perform as part of the field of medicine <those who seek to dispose of social problems by medicalizing them -Liam Hudson>  <the Western model of medicalized birth … in order to reduce potential risk -Judith Fitzpatrick>  <abortion had been medicalized -Paul Robinson>  med*i*cal*iza*tion n 
 
 
 
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