medicación
medication
noun meh-dee-kah-SYOHN Rare
Origin: From Latin 'medicatio', from 'medicare' (to treat, to heal).
Also means
course of treatment
Usage Note
Medicación refers to the medication being taken or a prescribed course of treatment, and is often interchangeable with medicamento (a specific medicine or drug). However, medicación tends to refer to the overall treatment regimen (estar en medicación, to be on medication), while medicamento refers to a single drug or substance. Medicación is also used in the phrase medicación de por vida (lifelong medication).
Examples
"El paciente debe tomar la medicación a la misma hora cada día."
Natural Translation
The patient must take the medication at the same time each day.
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