pathologise

/P AE1 TH AA1 L AH0 JH AY1 Z/
verb
  1. 1

    To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.

    โ€œSome childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pathologise, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pathologize