medication

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English

Etymology

From Middle English medicacioun, from Middle French médication and its etymon Latin medicātiō, from medicārī (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medērī (“to heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)

1. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
2. The administration of medicine.

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Further reading

• “medication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “medication”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “medication”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• decimation

Interlingua

Noun

medication (plural medicationes)

1. medication, medicine