different between medication vs vaptan

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 contraction of vasopressin receptor antagonist.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?væp.t?n/

Noun

vaptan (plural vaptans)

1. (pharmacology) Any of a group of medications that act by inhibiting the action of vasopressin on its receptors.

Derived terms

• conivaptan
• lixivaptan
• mozavaptan
• nelivaptan
• relcovaptan
• satavaptan
• tolvaptan