medication
/mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
medication noun: a medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
Noun
medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)
- A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
- Have you been taking your medication? [uncountable]
- Have you been taking your medications? [countable]
- The administration of medicine.
- Such behavior, if it doesn't abate, will necessitate medication and supervision.
medication meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
medication in Hindi
- one or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
- उपचार upcār, औषधि auṣdhi
medication in Tamil
- மருந்தளிப்பு, மருந்து உட்கொள்ளல், மருந்து மருத்துவம்
medication in Marathi
- औषधोपचार
medication in Urdu
- علاج, معالجہ
More languagesFewer languages
- medication in Bengali
- চিকিত্সা cikitśa
- medication in Kannada
- ಇಲಾಜು, ಮದ್ದುಗಾರಿಕೆ, ಔಷಧೀಕರಣ, ಮದ್ದಿಕೆ
- medication in Tagalog
- paggamot
- medication in Arabic
- دَوَاء dawāʔ
- medication in Malay
- ubat
- medication in Vietnamese
- phép trị liệu
Examples of medication in a sentence
- The patients, (al)though getting stronger, will not come off their medications.
- I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
- The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
Forms of medication
| plural | medications |
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Origin of medication
From Middle English medicacioun, from Middle French médication and its etymon Latin medicātiō, from medicārī (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medērī (“to heal”). Equivalent to medicate + -ion.
Words formed from medication
- apomedication
- automedication
- comedication
- demedication
- electromedication
- enzyme-inducing medication
- enzyme-inhibiting medication
- forget to take one's medication this morning
- hypermedication
- medicational
- medication-assisted treatment
- medication assisted treatment
- mismedication
- nonmedication
- overmedication
- polymedication
- postmedication
- premedication
- self-medication
- undermedication
Phrases with medication
Words that rhyme with medication
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about medication
- What does medication mean?
- Medication means a medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
- What is medication in Hindi?
- Medication in Hindi is उपचार (upcār), औषधि (auṣdhi). See Medication meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is medication?
- Medication is a noun.
- How do you pronounce medication?
- Medication is pronounced /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of medication?
- The plural of medication is medications.
Words near medication in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: medication (page history and authors); medication (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medication (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); medication (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medication (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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