All medication synonyms

noun medication

• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• 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.
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• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
• pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
• prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
• sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
• opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
• narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• pill — a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
• stimulant — Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
• reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
• nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
• alleviation — an alleviating or being alleviated
• recovery — an act of recovering.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• panacea — an ancient Greek goddess of healing.
• healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
• medicament — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• antidote — An antidote is a chemical substance that stops or controls the effect of a poison.
• physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
• therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
• proprietary — belonging to a proprietor.
• countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
• catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
• tonic — a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
• potion — a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
• dope — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
• pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
• quick fix — an expedient, temporary solution, especially one that merely postpones having to cope with an overall problem.
• counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
• counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
• medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
• biologic — pertaining to biology.
• medicinal — of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
• tablet — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
• capsule — A capsule is a very small tube containing powdered or liquid medicine, which you swallow.
• suppository — a solid, conical mass of medicinal substance that melts upon insertion into the rectum or vagina.
• dose — a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
• elixir — A magical or medicinal potion.