medication

1. 1.

   (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

   Synonymsmedicinemedicamentmedicinal drug

   Broaderdrug

   Narroweracycloviralendronateallopurinolamrinoneanalgesicangiogenesis inhibitorantiarrhythmicantibacterialanticholinergicanticholinesterase

   medicine

2. 2.

   the act of treating with medicines or remedies

   Broadertherapy

   Narrowerantipyresisadministration

Other forms of medication

plural

medications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about medication

What does medication mean?

medication means "(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medication?

medication has 4 syllables: med-i-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌmɛdəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for medication?

Close synonyms include medicine, medicament, medicinal drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medication a common word?

medication is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with medication?

104 words rhyme with medication. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.