Medication Definition

mĕdĭ-kāshən
medications
noun
medications
A medicating or being medicated.
Webster's New World
A medicine; substance for curing or healing, or for relieving pain.
Webster's New World
The act or process of treating a patient with medicine.
The response to medication.
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Noun

Singular:
medication
Plural:
medications

Origin of Medication

  • From Latin as if * medicatio, from medicari (“to heal, cure"), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon"), from mederi (“to heal").

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Medication Sentence Examples

  • My medication contributed to my comfort if not my state of mind.

  • Thanks to pain medication, Clarissa was resting as comfortably as could be expected.

  • The medication they were giving her to clear up the congestion in her lungs was making her sleep a lot, but they thought that was better than having her upset all the time.

  • The athlete took medication so that he would not wheeze.

  • Some of the most successful of the advances of medicine as a healing art have followed the detection of syphilitic disease of the vessels, or of the supporting tissues of nervous centres and of the peripheral nerves; so that, by specific medication, the treatment of paralytic, convulsive, and other terrible manifestations of nervous disease thus secondarily induced is now undertaken in early stages with definite prospect of cure.

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Words Starting With

MMEMED

Words Ending With

NONION

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