GC: adj

S: NCBI – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11959362/ (last access: 22 january 2025); Nature – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-73322-x (last access: 22 january 2025).

N: 1. Past participle and adjective. From verb medicate “to treat medicinally,” 1620s, a back-formation from medication, or else from Late Latin medicatus, past participle of medicare, medicari “to medicate, heal, cure” (poetic and Late Latin) from medicus “physician; healing” (from PIE root *med- “take appropriate measures”). Related: Medicated; medicating. The earlier verb in English was simply medicinen (late 14c.).

2. imbued with a medicinal substance.

3. Pharmacology: medicated.

• medicate: to impregnate with a medicinal substance.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=medicated  (last access: 22 January 2025). 2. TFD – http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/medicated (last access: 8 December 2015). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=medicated&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 22 January 2025); GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8870774/medicamenteux?utm_campaign=Redirection%20des%20anciens%20outils&utm_content=id_fiche%3D8870774&utm_source=GDT (last access: 22 January 2025).

SYN: drug (depending on context)

S: DTMe – https://dtme.ranm.es/buscador.aspx?NIVEL_BUS=3&LEMA_BUS=medicamentoso (last access: 22 January 2025); DPTM – https://dptm.es/dptm/?k=medicamentoso (last access: 22 January 2025).

CR: medicinal, pharmacology.