Depathologize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cease to treat as a medical disorder. transitive
"[…] by the 1970s, members of Tri-Ess were engineering newspaper articles and appearances on television to popularize and depathologize cross-dressing and help isolated heterosexual cross-dressers and their wives obtain support."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"[…] by the 1970s, members of Tri-Ess were engineering newspaper articles and appearances on television to popularize and depathologize cross-dressing and help isolated heterosexual cross-dressers and their wives obtain support."
Etymology
From de- + pathologize.
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