Any medical equipment used in the home to improve quality of life, such as iron lungs, oxygen tents, nebulizers, catheters, wheelchairs, etc.

A form of hypochondriasis in which medical students perceive themselves or others to be experiencing the symptoms of a disease they are studying.

A person who administers self-medication.

Medication of oneself without professional advice in order to treat a real or imagined condition.

plural of self-medicator

(transitive, intransitive, medicine) To consume a substance as a medication without the advice of a physician, in order to treat a real or imagined condition.

simple past tense and past participle of self-medicate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of self-medicate

present participle of self-medicate

A medication that induces higher concentrations of any enzyme in the blood (either by intention or as a side effect); often, more specifically, higher concentrations of liver enzymes (principally AST and ALT) in the blood.