1. treated or managed as a medical condition or problem, especially when it might not require medical intervention
Usage: often used critically to suggest over-medicalization

1. past tense and past participle of medicalize; to treat or classify something as a medical condition or to bring under medical control
Usage: transitive verb

Examples

• The medicalized approach to childbirth has changed significantly over the past century.
• Critics argue that normal aging has been unnecessarily medicalized.
• The condition was medicalized in the 1980s when new diagnostic criteria were established.
• Some believe that shyness has been medicalized as a psychiatric disorder.
• Mental health professionals debate whether certain behaviors should be medicalized or addressed through counseling.
• The medicalized treatment of the disease improved patient outcomes dramatically.
• Advocates worry that grief is being medicalized rather than recognized as a natural process.