When did "medicine" become "medication"?.

[rug]

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Medicine is such a lame-o word

medication sounds much more official, much more important.

Medicinal is even better, though it is an adjective, not a noun.

Rock on, man!

[Left Is Write]

3. Medicine and medication have always been synonymous when

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."

[Bouncy Ball]

4. I was just joking around.

[Left Is Write]

6. I know.

I was really responding to the OP but was sort of inspired by your post.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Good deal!

:hi:

[rug]

2. Same goes for documentation versus document

[trof]

5. Last Tuesday.

Around 4:30, I think.

[Orangepeel]

7. I thought that medicine was taken to relieve an ailment

and medication was ongoing treatment.

Did I just make that up out of thin air?

[DrWeird]

8. When did "go to hospital" become "go to the hospital"

Anyone?

HeyHey?

[trof]

10. American: "In the" hospital. Brit: "In hospital."

Don't ask me why.
They're also "in" university while we go "to" the same place.

[rug]

11. Is medication English and medicine American?

Or should we all just get them in Canada?

[Kire]

12. before "medication" became "meds"

"medicine" is a professional field, "medication" is a bottle of pills

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

13. Medicine cures illness.

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?