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S vs Pathologized - What's the difference?

s | pathologized |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb pathologized is

(pathologize).

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

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    pathologized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pathologize)

    • pathologize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pathologise

    Verb

    (pathologiz)
  • To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
  • :Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.
  • * 2001 Dec. 16, , " Pain, the Disease," New York Times (retrieved 12 July 2011):
    • Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.
  • * 2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, " Inbox," Time :
    • To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.
  • * 2009 , Joseph G. Ponterotto et al.'', ''Handbook of Multicultural Counseling , ISBN 9781412964326, p. 142:
    • My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.