pseudoaddiction
English
noun
Definitions
- (medicine) A condition resembling drug addiction but caused by underprescription of drugs to treat pain in the patient, causing them to seek more.
Etymology
Prefix from English addiction.
Origin
English
addiction
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- addict English
- addiction English
- addictionlike English
- addictionology English
- antiaddiction English
- cyberaddiction English
- deaddiction English
- multi-addiction English
- polyaddiction English
- readdiction English
- addictio, addictionem Latin
- *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- addiction Norman