What does medication mean?

Definitions for medication
ˌmɛd ɪˈkeɪ ʃənmed·i·ca·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drugnoun

    (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

  2. medicationnoun

    the act of treating with medicines or remedies

Wiktionary

  1. medicationnoun

    A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient

  2. medicationnoun

    The administration of medicine

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Medicationnoun

    Etymology: from medicate.

    The watering of the plant with an infusion of the medicine may have more force than the rest, because the medication is oft renewed. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    He adviseth to observe the times of the equinoxes and solstices, and to declare medication ten days before and after. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iv.

Wikipedia

  1. Medication

    A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and relies on the science of pharmacology for continual advancement and on pharmacy for appropriate management. Drugs are classified in multiple ways. One of the key divisions is by level of control, which distinguishes prescription drugs (those that a pharmacist dispenses only on the order of a physician, physician assistant, or qualified nurse) from over-the-counter drugs (those that consumers can order for themselves). Another key distinction is between traditional small molecule drugs, usually derived from chemical synthesis, and biopharmaceuticals, which include recombinant proteins, vaccines, blood products used therapeutically (such as IVIG), gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies and cell therapy (for instance, stem cell therapies). Other ways to classify medicines are by mode of action, route of administration, biological system affected, or therapeutic effects. An elaborate and widely used classification system is the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System. The World Health Organization keeps a list of essential medicines. Drug discovery and drug development are complex and expensive endeavors undertaken by pharmaceutical companies, academic scientists, and governments. As a result of this complex path from discovery to commercialization, partnering has become a standard practice for advancing drug candidates through development pipelines. Governments generally regulate what drugs can be marketed, how drugs are marketed, and in some jurisdictions, drug pricing. Controversies have arisen over drug pricing and disposal of used drugs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Medication

    the act or process of medicating

  2. Etymology: [L. medicatio: cf. F. mdication.]

Freebase

  1. Medication

    A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as a medicine or medication, can be loosely defined as any chemical substance - or product comprising such - intended for use in the medical diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease. The word pharmaceutical comes from the Greek word Pharmakeia. The modern transliteration of Pharmakeia is Pharmacia.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of medication in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of medication in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of medication in a Sentence

  1. Lois Parker:

    Weight is a source of medication errors because if the parent reports the weight in pounds and we base the dosing on kilograms that can lead to the wrong dose.

  2. Asha Hassan:

    It’s fair to be confused about all of the different ways in which somebody can get access to medication abortion and wonder which ways are legal and which ways are a little bit more outside of the legal framework, we’re in a learning curve right now. But then, the education has to change because it is constantly a shifting climate.

  3. Martha Hughes:

    When she took the medication, she started having a hard time breathing, and she told her mom that her lips were burning, her throat, her eyes, they got so red that she couldn't talk. So she rushed her to the ER, and that's when they diagnosed her with the disease. And from there it has just spiraled to a nightmare.

  4. Obstetrics Gynecology:

    I think it's also important to keep in mind that the risks of any medication -- whether it's ondansetron or any other medication -- need to be balanced against the risks of inadequate treatment or no treatment, particularly in those patients that have severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, or hyperemesis gravidarum, those conditions carry some real risks themselves -- dehydration, electrolyte abnormalities -- and a lot of these patients require admission to the hospital if they're not adequately treated.

  5. James Holmes:

    But his ability to express his emotions has been impaired by disease and medication and we know it is very, very hard for people to see.

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