medication

noun

1. the use or application of medicine.
2. a medicinal substance; medicament.

noun

1. treatment with drugs or remedies
2. a drug or remedy

n.early 15c., “medical treatment of a disease or wound,” from Middle French médication and directly from Latin medicationem (nominative medicatio) “healing, cure,” from past participle stem of medicare, medicari “to medicate, heal, cure” (poetic and Late Latin) from medicus “physician, healing” (see medical (adj.)). n.

1. A medicine; a medicament.
2. The act or process of treating with medicine.
3. Administration of medicine.