medication

From Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio, from medicari (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from mederi (“to heal”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)

1. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
   • 2019 March 19, Michael Pennington, The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off, season 2, episode 3, Channel 4:

     Are you going to be be like this all day? It’s like I’ve not took^{[sic, meaning taken]} my medication.

2. The administration of medicine.

• medic
• medicine
• medicament
• medicate
• medicinal
• premedication

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

• decimation

medication (plural medicationes)

1. medication, medicine