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Verb: medicalise  'me-di-ku,lIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: medicalize)
  1. Describe, regard or treat as a medical issue
    "Critics argued that the tendency to medicalise normal human emotions was harmful";
    - medicalize

Derived forms: medicalised, medicalises, medicalising

Encyclopedia: Medicalise