# medication

Pronunciation: US say "med-i-KAY-shun" /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. A medicine, or the full range of medicines a patient takes on a regular basis.
   - Simple: Medicine used to treat illness, or all the medicines a person takes regularly.
   - _Her pharmacist reviewed every medication she was taking for possible interactions._
   - _Patients leaving the hospital often receive a printed list of their medication._
2. The process of giving medicine to a patient as part of treatment.
   - Simple: The act of giving medicine to someone who is sick.
   - _The nurse oversaw the medication of every patient on the ward._
   - _Medication began only after the doctors had confirmed the diagnosis._

## Origin

It comes from Middle English medicacioun and Middle French médication, from Latin medicātiō, based on medicārī ("to heal, cure") and medicus ("a physician, surgeon"), from medērī ("to heal"). It is equivalent to medicate plus -ion.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/medication (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).