单词 | pathologize |
释义 | pathologizev.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [verb (transitive)] > apply remedy to plastera1398 medicinea1425 to lay to1551 medicate1623 pathologize1649 medicament1850 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia Pref. sig. A5 Neither the great Parents of Physick, nor their Learned Off-spring had pathologized the Muscles. 2. transitive. To regard as pathological or a suitable subject for pathology; esp. to regard as psychologically unhealthy or abnormal. ΚΠ 1980 H. Lane in H. Lane & F. Grosjean Recent Perspectives on Amer. Sign Lang. vii. 150 All were part of a single purpose, to eradicate a deaf minority, to interpret diversity as pathology—to ‘pathologize’ the deaf. 1985 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 20 553 Yet another attempt to extend medical control and to medicalize and pathologize sexuality. 1993 Guardian 4 May ii. 13/3 Too often, patients were being pathologised and patronized. 2001 Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 139/2 Your efforts to pathologize his normal, healthy, and, yes, routine masturbation betray a hysterical fear of male sexuality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1649 |
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