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overmedication

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English

Etymology

From over- + medication.

Noun

overmedication (countable and uncountable, plural overmedications)

  1. (medicine) Excessive medicating; overuse of medication
    • 2008 January 15, Jane E. Brody, “A Stable Life, Despite Persistent Dizziness”, in New York Times:
      This can result from dehydration, abnormal heart rhythms, overmedication with blood pressure drugs and disorders of the autonomic nervous system.
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