different between medication vs promethazine

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 pro(p)- +? meth- +? (phenothi)azine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??(?)?m??.?.zi?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?o??m??.??zin/

Noun

promethazine (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) A first-generation H₁ receptor antagonist derived from phenothiazine, used as antihistamine and antiemetic medication with strong sedative effects.

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Further reading

• promethazine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “promethazine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “promethazine”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).