different between medication vs agrypnotic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

medication (countable and uncountable, plural medications)

1. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
2. The administration of medicine.

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Further reading

• 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

Anagrams

• decimation

Interlingua

Noun

medication (plural medicationes)

1. medication, medicine

English

Etymology

From the Greek word ???????? (ágrypnos) meaning sleepless

Adjective

agrypnotic (comparative more agrypnotic, superlative most agrypnotic)

1. (medicine) Preventing sleep; causing wakefulness; insomniac.

Noun

agrypnotic (plural agrypnotics)

1. (medicine) A medication that prevents sleep.