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Polypharmacy
Meaning
Noun
●
In Medicine:
The use of
multiple
drugs
to
treat
multiple
concurrent
disorders
in the same (now especially
elderly
)
patient
,
chiefly
with
connotations
of
indiscriminate
or
excessive
prescription.
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