medicalização
Portuguese, noun
medicalização is spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-L-I-Z-A-Ç-Ã-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 115,974th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medicalização is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “medicalization (the act or process of medicalizing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato ou efeito de medicalizar”.
What does medicalização mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemedicalization (the act or process of medicalizing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de medicalizar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of medicalização
- medicalizações plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to medicalização
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is medicalização in Portuguese?
medicalização appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).