medication

substance used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease
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medication

Summary

medication ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (238 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • medication is a type of drug[2].
  • medication is a type of medicinal product[3].
  • medication is part of pharmacy[4].
  • medication is used for pharmacotherapy[5].
  • medication's Commons category is recorded as Pharmaceutical drugs[6].
  • medication's said to be the same as is recorded as medicinal product[7].
  • medication's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Medications[8].
  • medication's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • medication's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • medication's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • medication's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12].
  • medication's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[13].
  • medication's partially coincident with is recorded as pharmaceutical product[14].
  • medication's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox drug[15].
  • medication's has characteristic is recorded as drug class[16].
  • medication's has characteristic is recorded as effective dose[17].
  • medication's has characteristic is recorded as side effect[18].
  • medication's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2176[19].
  • medication's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Drug[20].
  • medication's different from is recorded as Leigheas[21].
  • medication's different from is recorded as Derman[22].
  • medication's different from is recorded as Medicine[23].
  • medication's different from is recorded as Medication[24].
  • medication's properties for this type is recorded as P769[25].
  • medication's properties for this type is recorded as P2175[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include drug[2] and medicinal product[3].

Use and Application

medication is used for pharmacotherapy[5]. medication is part of pharmacy[4].

Influence

Things named for medication include Kushiro River[27], a river[28], in Japan[29].

Why It Matters

medication ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (238 views/month).[1] medication has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] medication is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for medication include Kushiro River[27], a river[28], in Japan[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Drug
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_23888"
  2. 2d ago · Ornithorynque liminaire · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba
    Sitelink count → 179
    Studied by → pharmacy
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2579]]: [[Q614304]]"
  3. 6w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C4856
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C4856, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Ntare IV Rutaganzwa Rugamba
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q320807, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001003-leciva
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001003-leciva, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Disjoint union of → list of values as qualifiers
    Has characteristic → drug class, effective dose, side effect
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox drug
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1077, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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