medication

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

• “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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medication (plural medicationes)

1. medication, medicine