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The fine print that stops your cure from becoming your cause of death.
means A specific reason — a condition, drug, or circumstance — that makes a particular treatment or procedure risky or unwise to use.
from Built from the Latin prefix 'contra-' (against) plus 'indication' (from indicare, to point out or show). So literally it means 'a pointing-against' — the medical evidence pointing the opposite direction from the treatment you were about to give. The word entered medical Latin and English usage as doctors needed a precise term for 'yes, this drug normally helps, but not here, not for this patient.'
- literal meaning
- a reason not to, hiding inside the reason to
- common example
- grapefruit juice sabotages dozens of common medications
- ignored at parties
- alcohol plus almost anything is one
- root word
- latin contra, against the thing you wanted