CONTRAINDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contraindication mean? 

• CONTRAINDICATION (noun)
  The noun CONTRAINDICATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CONTRAINDICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRAINDICATION (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)

 Context examples 

For example, having a bleeding disorder is a contraindication for taking aspirin because treatment with aspirin may cause excess bleeding.

(Contraindication, NCI Dictionary)

Drug label must include: trademark and category of product, description of product chemical and physical characteristics, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, data on absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, special populations, clinical studies, efficacy and safety data, indications, contraindications, adverse events warnings and precautions including lab tests; potential drug interactions, carcinogens statement, pregnancy category.

(Medical Product Label, NCI Thesaurus)