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Sun Jan-16-05 06:45 PM
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When did "medicine" become "medication"?. |
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Sun Jan-16-05 06:48 PM
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1. Medicine is such a lame-o word |
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medication sounds much more official, much more important.
Medicinal is even better, though it is an adjective, not a noun.
Rock on, man!
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Sun Jan-16-05 06:52 PM
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3. Medicine and medication have always been synonymous when |
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referring to "a medicine."
Medicine also means the discipline of medicine, and medication also means the process of treatment or the administering of a medicine.
It really is okay to use "medication" in place of "medicine" as a noun, but personally, I prefer medication as a verb.
When I medicate my son, I tell him I am giving him "medicine."
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Sun Jan-16-05 06:53 PM
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4. I was just joking around. |
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Sun Jan-16-05 06:56 PM
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I was really responding to the OP but was sort of inspired by your post.
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:11 PM
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Sun Jan-16-05 06:51 PM
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2. Same goes for documentation versus document |
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:00 PM
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7. I thought that medicine was taken to relieve an ailment |
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and medication was ongoing treatment.
Did I just make that up out of thin air?
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:01 PM
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8. When did "go to hospital" become "go to the hospital" |
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:12 PM
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10. American: "In the" hospital. Brit: "In hospital." |
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Don't ask me why. They're also "in" university while we go "to" the same place.
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:14 PM
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11. Is medication English and medicine American? |
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Or should we all just get them in Canada?
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:50 PM
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12. before "medication" became "meds" |
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"medicine" is a professional field, "medication" is a bottle of pills
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:59 PM
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13. Medicine cures illness. |
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Medication keeps the symptoms down without treating the illness itself, thereby allowing your pharmaceutical company to squeeze much more money out of you. And in the end, isn't that what's really important?
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