Medication (disambiguation)

Medication, strictly speaking the act of administering medicine, may refer in popular usage to:

  • Drug, any chemical substance that alters normal bodily function
    • Pharmaceutical drug, any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease
      • Small molecule drugs
      • Biologic medical products that are regulated like drugs
  • A herbal medicine

Medication may also refer to:

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