polypharmacy

  1. Noun.  (medicine) The use of multiple drugs in a single prescription.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same patient; especially the indiscriminate prescription of many drugs to elderly patients.

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