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How to pronounce “polypharmacy”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of polypharmacy with real speech in context.
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Real speech example: The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at homemoving from polypharmacy,
Definition summary: (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 (involving overmedication and overprescription). [from 18th c.]

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How to pronounce polypharmacy

The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home

moving from polypharmacy,

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Meaning

[Noun]
(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 (involving overmedication and overprescription). [from 18th c.]

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