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medication

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

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sucralfate

English

Etymology

From sucr(ose) +? al(uminum) +? (sul)fate.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s(j)u?.k??l?fe?t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /su?k?æl?fe?t/

Noun

sucralfate (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) A drug used in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. It is a complex of aluminium hydroxide and a sulfate derivative of sucrose, C12HmAl16OnS8 where m and n are approximately 54 and 75.

References

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

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