polypharmacy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词源

From poly- + pharmacy, after Ancient Greek πολυφάρμακος (poluphármakos).
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