medication

See also: médication

English

Etymology

From Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio, from medicari (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from mederi (“to heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)

1. 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.

2. The administration of medicine.

   Such behavior, if it doesn't abate, will necessitate medication and supervision.

Derived terms

• enzyme-inducing medication
• enzyme-inhibiting medication
• forget to take one's medication this morning
• medication-assisted treatment
• medication assisted treatment
• premedication
• self-medication

 

Related terms

• medic
• medicament
• medicate
• medicinal
• medicine
• self-medicate

 

Translations

one or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient

• Albanian: barna
• Armenian: դեղորայք (hy) (deġoraykʿ)
• Bengali: চিকিত্সা (cikitśa)
• Bulgarian: лекарство (bg) n (lekarstvo)
• Catalan: medicament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 药物 (zh) (yàowù)

• Czech: léky (cs) m pl
• Dutch: medicatie (nl)
• Esperanto: kuracilo (eo), medicinaĵo
• Finnish: lääkitys (fi), lääkkeet (fi) pl, lääke (fi)
• French: médication (fr) f
• Galician: medicación (gl) f
• Georgian: მედიკამენტური (mediḳamenṭuri)
• German: Medikation (de) f, Arzneimittel (de) n
• Greek: φαρμακευτική αγωγή f (farmakeftikí agogí)
• Hungarian: gyógyszer (hu)
• Italian: medicazione (it) f
• Kazakh: дәрі-дәрмек (därı-därmek)
• Khmer: ឱសថ (km) (aosath)
• Latin: medicāmen (la) n
• Malay: ubat (ms)
• Portuguese: medicamento (pt) m, medicação (pt) f
• Romanian: medicație (ro)
• Russian: лека́рства (ru) n pl (lekárstva), медикаме́нты (ru) m pl (medikaménty)
• Spanish: medicamento (es) m, medicación (es)
• Tagalog: paggamot
• Vietnamese: phép trị liệu

administration of medicine

• Finnish: lääkintä (fi), lääkitys (fi)
• French: médication (fr) f
• Galician: medicación (gl)
• German: Medikation (de) f
• Hungarian: gyógyszerezés, gyógyszerelés (hu), gyógyszeres kezelés
• Italian: medicazione (it) f
• Portuguese: medicação (pt) f
• Spanish: medicación (es) f

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• decimation

Interlingua

Noun

medication (plural medicationes)

1. medication, medicine