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CONTRAINDICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contraindicate mean? 

CONTRAINDICATE (verb)
  The verb CONTRAINDICATE has 1 sense:

1. make a treatment inadvisableplay

  Familiarity information: CONTRAINDICATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONTRAINDICATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they contraindicate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it contraindicates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: contraindicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: contraindicated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: contraindicating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a treatment inadvisable

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "contraindicate" is one way to...):

advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Antonym:

indicate (to state or express briefly)

indicate (suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine)

Derivation:

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


 Context examples 


Device problems related to its use during an unapproved procedure, in an unapproved patient, or for which it is contraindicated, or not listed on the label.

(Off-Label Unapproved or Contraindicated Device Use Evaluation Conclusion, Food and Drug Administration)



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