polypharmacy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of polypharmacy
Example Sentences
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She also found that rates of polypharmacy, or when an individual takes five or more drugs at the same time, have risen to alarming levels.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
Among their results found rising rates of use of common medications and increase rates of polypharmacy.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
The work is part of a provocative and growing body of research that documents how polypharmacy — the use of multiple prescription drugs at the same time — has risen in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2018
Those who practised polypharmacy administered at night a mixture of nitre, camphor, red-lead, and rhubarb, in half a pailful of warm water; and greatly did they boast of the active influence of this beverage.
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