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medication

med·i·ca·tion
M m

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [med-i-key-shuh n]
    • /ˌmɛd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən/
    • /ˌmed.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [med-i-key-shuh n]
    • /ˌmɛd ɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Definitions of medication word

  • noun medication the use or application of medicine. 1
  • noun medication a medicinal substance; medicament. 1
  • noun medication A substance used for medical treatment, especially a medicine or drug. 1
  • noun medication medicine, drug 1
  • noun medication treatment with drugs 1
  • variable noun medication Medication is medicine that is used to treat and cure illness. 0

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Origin of medication

First appearance:

before 1375
One of the 22% oldest English words
1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin medicātiōn- (stem of medicātiō). See medicate, -ion

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Medication

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

medication popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 81% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

medication usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for medication

noun medication

  • assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
  • remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
  • treatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • medicine — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site: A medical dictionary reveals that large numbers of medical terms are formed from the same Latin and Greek parts combined and recombined.

Antonyms for medication

noun medication

  • hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
  • hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
  • disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.

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