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tardive

tardive

9.9
Happening late in a disease or after medical treatment starts
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɑrdɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tardivo
  • The patient was diagnosed with tardive dyskinesia after years of antipsychotic drug use.

Who God bless who I believe it's called tardive or tardive dyskinesia.

Examples

  • The threat of tardive dyskinesia was a greater risk than Bart wanted to take.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Who God bless who I believe it's called tardive or tardive dyskinesia.

    The Basement Yard

  • After months of medication, he developed tardive symptoms that affected his motor skills.

  • Her doctor warned her about the possibility of tardive side effects from the long-term treatment.

Compounds

tardive dyskinesia
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A condition that causes uncontrolled movements of the face, mouth, or body after long-term use of medicines for mental illness

How Late

tardive
  • Specialized
9.9
delayed
1 1.3

Surface Forms

tardive positive

Morphology

tardive = tardy (semi-transparent) = tard + ive

Formally an adjective formed with -ive and closely related to 'tardy'/'late', but it is a learned borrowing used mostly in medical contexts so the morphological link is not fully productive for average learners.

Etymology

The word tardive comes from the Latin root tardus, which means 'slow' or 'late' and is the same idea behind the common English word tardy. So, in medicine, tardive describes symptoms that appear late in a disease or after a treatment has started.