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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
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Medication or medicine?

medication or medicine?
  

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I want to know general difference.

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Medication is a substance used for medical treatment.
Medicine is, firstly, the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery). Secondly, medicine means a compound or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease, esp. a drug or drugs taken by mouth : give her some medicine | your doctor will be able t
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Hi,

When I was a child in Northern Ireland, we never used the term 'medication'.
'Medicine' was used only to describe something in the form of a liquid.

We said things like -
The doctor gave me so

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