medicalizar
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]medicalizar (first-person singular present medicalizo, first-person singular preterite medicalicé, past participle medicalizado)
- to make medical (to provide something, such as a means of transport, with what is necessary to offer medical assistance)
- hotel medicalizado ― medical hostel
- helicoptero medicalizado ― medical 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)
- to medicalize (to make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of medicalizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “medicalizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28