CONTRAINDICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contraindicate mean? 

• CONTRAINDICATE (verb)
  The verb CONTRAINDICATE has 1 sense:

1. make a treatment inadvisable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRAINDICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they contraindicate    ... he / she / it contraindicates   
Past simple: contraindicated   
Past participle: contraindicated   
-ing form: contraindicating   

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)