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CONTRAINDICATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("contraindication" is a kind of...):

reason (a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Antonym:

indication ((medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure)

Derivation:

contraindicate (make a treatment inadvisable)

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