medication

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/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)

1. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
2. The administration of medicine.

Further reading

• medication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• medication in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• medication at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• decimation