polypharmacy

[ pol-ee-fahr-muh-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Pharmacology.

the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.

First recorded in 1755–65; poly- + pharmacy

Polypharmacy, pol-i-fr′ma-si n. the prescribing of too many medicines.

These preparations are a remnant of the days of polypharmacy.

With Arabian influence came polypharmacy, distrust of nature, and attempts to cure disease rather than help nature.

They corrected the polypharmacy of the Arabs and restored natural modes of cure to their proper place.

The formularies of the Middle Ages encouraged this so-called "polypharmacy."

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