Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach.
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Polypharmacy
Synonyms for "polypharmacy" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Translations
10 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 多重用藥 /多重用药 noun (Translations)
Finnish
1 entries- monilääkitys noun (Translations)
German
3 entries- Multimedikation noun (Translations)
- Polypharmakotherapie noun (Translations)
- Polypharmazie noun (Translations)
Icelandic
1 entries- lyfjaofgjöf noun (Translations)
Japanese
1 entries- 多剤併用 noun (Translations)
Latin
1 entries- polypharmacia noun (Translations)
Polish
1 entries- polipragmazja noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- polimedicación noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Faced with wheezing, blue-faced patients, they felt they had to do something, and the approach they adopted was polypragmatism, or polypharmacy: they threw the medicine cabinet at the problem.
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