1. treated or managed as a medical condition; subjected to medical intervention or diagnosis
Usage: often used critically to suggest that a non-medical issue has been unnecessarily framed as a disease or disorder

1. past tense and past participle of 'medicalise': to treat or classify something as a medical problem; to bring under medical control or authority
Usage: British spelling variant of 'medicalized'; often used in social or critical contexts

Examples

• Childhood shyness has become increasingly medicalised in recent decades.
• Critics argue that normal grief has been medicalised as depression.
• The condition was medicalised only after new diagnostic criteria were established.
• Some argue that menopause should not be medicalised as a disease.
• The practice medicalised what was once considered a social issue.
• Medicalised approaches to mental health have both benefits and drawbacks.