Polypharmacy
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription (involving overmedication and overprescription). uncountable
"Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach."
Example
More examples"Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach."
Etymology
From poly- + pharmacy, after Ancient Greek πολυφάρμακος (poluphármakos).