英:['self ˌmedɪ'keɪʃən]
美:['self ˌmedɪ'keɪʃən]
英:['self ˌmedɪ'keɪʃən]
美:['self ˌmedɪ'keɪʃən]
noun
the act or process of medicating oneself especially without the advice of a physician : self-treatment Hazard has a long tradition of self-medicating. Moonshine and marijuana, grown in its fertile soil, have long helped to blot out depression, boredom, even physical pain.—Debra Rosenbergalso: a substance used for self-medication Over half (57 per cent) of these medical centre patients reported using one or more over-the-counter medications in the previous month, with analgesics, cold and allergy products, and antacid products being the most common self-medications. —Antonia C. Lyons and Kerry Chamberlain
For chronic coughs, self-medication with cough remedies is usually inappropriate, and most doctors discourage their use.—Consumer Reports
The first known use of self-medication was in 1830
self-medicationnoun
medication of oneself especially without the advice of a physician : self-treatment
self-medication with nonprescription drugs
1 The incident could shed light on the origins of self-medication for wounds, which was mentioned by humans in a medical manuscript dating to 2200 B.C.E., the Guardian writes.
2 Now that self-medication has been documented among several ape species, researchers theorize that such behaviors might have been part of the repertoire of the last common ancestors of human and apes.
3 There’s also kind of some self-medication going into play.
4 The effectiveness of these medications may vary from person to person depending on the cause of the gas, but is an overall safe form of self-medication, says Sarah Robbins, MD, MSc, FRCPC, a gastroenterologist, gut health expert, and founder of Well Sunday.
5 What is new is how lethal that self-medication and experimentation have become, due to knockoff pills.
6 By the end of the verse those lines appear in, the clawing at Gunna’s flesh — by district attorneys, old collaborators, and those casting aspersions on his self-medication — is waved away poetically.
7 Trump’s venting may have been a kind of self-medication, succor after a day of unaccustomed humility and painful humiliation.
8 In America, self-medication has practically become a point of pride.
9 Many compounded the mischief by harmful self - medication.
许多人自作聪明乱服药,使病更难治.