Medication

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  • noun. A drug or other substance used to treat disease or injury; a medicine.
  • noun. The act or process of treating a patient with medicine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or process of medicating or imbuing with medicinal substances; the infusion of medicinal virtues.
  • noun. The use or application of medicine; specifically, the administration of a therapeutic agent in order to produce some specific modification in the structure or function of the organism, as in producing diuresis, perspiration, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • The act or process of medicating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
  • noun. The administration of medicine
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of treating with medicines or remedies
  • noun. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
  • Word Usage
    "His new pain medication is working, and it doesn't leave him so groggy."
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