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medicalizar

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /medikaliˈθaɾ/ [me.ð̞i.ka.liˈθaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /medikaliˈsaɾ/ [me.ð̞i.ka.liˈsaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: me‧di‧ca‧li‧zar

Verb

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medicalizar (first-person singular present medicalizo, first-person singular preterite medicalicé, past participle medicalizado)

  1. to make medical (to provide something, such as a means of transport, with what is necessary to offer medical assistance)
    hotel medicalizadomedical hostel
    helicoptero medicalizadomedical helicopter
    • 2015 July 30, “Muere una bañista de 47 años ahogada en una playa de Tarragona”, in El País[1]:
      Más tarde, una unidad de los Bomberos de la Generalitat se ha trasladado al lugar del incidente para rescatar la víctima, así como también una ambulancia medicalizada del Servicio de Emergencias Médicas (SEM).
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to medicalize (to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine)

Conjugation

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