medication
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See also: médication
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio, from medicari (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from mederi (“to heal”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)
- A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
- Have you been taking your medication? [uncountable]
- Have you been taking your medications? [countable]
- 2019 March 19, The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off, season 2, episode 3, Michael Pennington (actor), via Channel 4:
- Are you going to be be like this all day? It’s like I’ve not took[sic – meaning taken] my medication.
- The administration of medicine.
- Such behavior, if it doesn't abate, will necessitate medication and supervision.
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Translations[edit]
one or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
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administration of medicine
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Further reading[edit]
- “medication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “medication”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “medication”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
medication (plural medicationes)
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