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Medication   /mˌɛdəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Medication

noun
1.
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease.  Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine.
2.
The act of treating with medicines or remedies.



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"Medication" Quotes from Famous Books



... rod with a sponge at the end. It is introduced into the esophagus or larynx to remove foreign bodies or introduce medication. ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... making a great show of pouring wine and applying ointment; under cover of the medication, they jabbed each slave with a hypodermic needle, and then guided them to seats at the four tables. Vall and Dalla went over and stood behind one of the psychists, who had a ...
— Time Crime • H. Beam Piper
... recommended for many of the same diseases. In fact, the Mountain Herb Pills and the Indian Root Pills used identical text in explaining their effect upon several disagreeable conditions. Always prominent in this advertising were reminders of our fragile mortality and warnings, if proper medication were neglected, of an untimely consignment to the ...
— History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills • Robert B. Shaw
... where the reproductive organs were lacking, the girl had been subjected to a long course of home medication which had proven disastrous to her digestion, and yet, as will be readily understood, had not resulted in the establishment of a function that is dependent upon organs which, in ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... also faith, cooperating with a belief in the healing effects of time and medication, will soothe fear and change 398:27 the belief of disease to a belief of health. Even a blind faith removes bodily ailments for a season, but hypnotism changes such ills into new and more difficult forms of dis- 398:30 ease. The Science of Mind must come ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy


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