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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contraindication
noun
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▪ Age is not an absolute contraindication, although there are obvious constraints in elderly patients.
▪ Even patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by autonomic neuropathy are not necessarily a contraindication to restorative proctocolectomy.
▪ For similar reasons the presence of severe lung disease and chronic kidney disease is a contraindication to disulfiram administration.
▪ Liver cirrhosis often is listed as a contraindication to the use of disulfiram.
▪ Many general practitioners will use narcotics such as diamorphine initially, but is that a contraindication to adding a hypnotic?
▪ Since the vaccine does not contain any egg products, egg allergy is not a contraindication.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contraindication

Contraindication \Con"tra*in`di*ca"tion\, n. (med.) An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

Wiktionary
contraindication

n. (context medicine English) A factor or symptom which makes the prescribed treatment inadvisable.

WordNet
contraindication

n. (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment [ant: indication]

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Contraindication

In medicine, a contraindication is a condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient. Contraindication is the opposite of indication, which is a reason to use a certain treatment.

Some contraindications are absolute, meaning that there are no reasonable circumstances for undertaking a course of action. For example, children and teenagers with viral infections should not be given aspirin because of the risk of Reye's syndrome, and a person with an anaphylactic food allergy should never eat the food to which they are allergic. Similarly, a person with hemochromatosis should not be administered iron preparations.

Other contraindications are relative, meaning that the patient is at higher risk of complications, but these risks may be outweighed by other considerations or mitigated by other measures. For example, a pregnant woman should normally avoid getting X-rays, but the risk may be outweighed by the benefit of diagnosing (and then treating) a serious condition such as tuberculosis. Relative contraindications may also be referred to as cautions, such as in the British National Formulary.

Usage examples of "contraindication".

Surgery can, of course, change some of these parts but there may be serious contraindications to surgery besides cost.

Sorenson of the department of immunology does not think the AIDS is an absolute contraindication for surgery at this time.

If there were no contraindications, he liked balanced anesthesia the best, meaning he did not have to give the patient some gargantuan dose of any one agent, but rather he balanced the needs by a number of different agents.